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Wat hebben Bernard van Clairvaux, een middeleeuwse mysticus... 

en Padre Pio, een hedendaagse monnik, met elkaar gemeen? 

Beiden waren niet alleen heiligen, maar toonden ook diepe toewijding... 

aan de Heilige Schouderwond van Christus.

een wond 'onbekend aan de mensen'...

Sint Bernard van Clairvaux...

vertelde in de Annales de Clairvaux dat hij op een dag, biddend tot Jezus, aan Hem vroeg wat zijn ergste lijden was geweest dat tot dan toe onbekend was gebleven, en hier is wat Christus hem antwoordde:

'Ik had, terwijl ik het kruis droeg, een diepe wond die me meer pijn deed dan de andere en die niet bekend is bij de mensen. Maar onthul ze aan getrouwe christenen en weet dat alle Genade die van Mij zal worden gevraagd krachtens deze plaag, aan hun zal worden verleend. En aan allen die Mij uit liefde voor deze zullen eren, zal ik dagelijkse zonden vergeven en doodzonden niet meer gedenken.'

De heilige Pio van Pietrelcina [†1968]... 

beroemd als biechtvader en als heilige man die meer dan 50 jaar de stigmata droeg...

In zijn boek Il Papa e Il Frate (De paus en de monnik) meldt Stefano Campanella een zeer interessante uitwisseling tussen de toekomstige heilige, Pio, en de toekomstige paus Johannes Paulus II, Karol Wojtyla.

Wojtyla vroeg Padre Pio welke van de stigmata de meest pijnlijke was, in de verwachting dat het de wond in zijn zij was, maar de monnik antwoordde: 'Het is de wonde in de schouder, die niemand kent en die nooit is genezen.'

In 2008 schreef de Amerikaanse auteur Frank Rega over Pater Pio: 

'Hij had de monnik Modestino Fucci toevertrouwd dat hij het meest leed toen hij zijn hemd uittrok. Modestino dacht, net als de jonge Wojtyla, dat dat kwam door het stigma aan zijn rechterkant. Maar op 4 februari 1974, toen hij de inventaris opmaakte van alles wat zich in de cel van de dode monnik bevond, ontdekte hij dat Padre Pio's hemd bloedvlekken op de rechterschouder had.

'In zijn avondgebed vroeg broeder Modestino aan Padre Pio om hem de betekenis van deze bloedvlekken uit te leggen, en hem een ​​teken te sturen of hij werkelijk de wond op de schouder van Christus had gedragen.

'Hij ging naar bed, maar werd gewekt door een ondragelijke pijn in zijn rechterschouder, alsof een mes hem tot op het bot had gesneden. Hij had het gevoel dat hij zou sterven als de pijn aanhield, maar het was van korte duur.

'Toen werd zijn cel gevuld met de goddelijke geur van bloemen, een teken van Padre Pio's spirituele aanwezigheid, en Modestino hoorde een stem zeggen: Dit is wat ik heb geleden.'

Sint-Bernardus van Clairvaux... 

na de boodschap van Jezus te hebben ontvangen... 

bad voor zijn devotie tot de Heilige Wond steeds het volgende gebed:

Meest geliefde Heer

meest zachtmoedige Lam van God

Ik, arme zondaar, aanbid en vereer

de Allerheiligste Wond die Gij op Uw schouder droeg

het zeer zware kruis naar Golgotha ​ge​dragen

dat drie heilige beenderen onbedekt liet

en enorme pijn veroorzaakte.

Ik smeek U, op grond

van de verdiensten van de genoemde kastijding

om medelijden met mij te hebben, en me te vergeven

van al mijn doodzonden en alle dagelijkse zonden

en me bij te staan ​​in het uur van de dood

en te leiden naar Uw

Hemelse Koninkrijk.

Amen

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The second thing: 

look at the S E Q U E N C E. 

It is profound !

C R E A T I N G

The first miracle that is mentioned, by the permission of Allah...

is giving life to something that did not have life.

Why is that important?

Remember, now under Herod, there was Roman influence in the city of Jerusalem.

So for the first time there, you have sculptures.

And what does Allah say on the day of judgment to the sculpture makers:

that they will be challenged to give life to that which they make.

So when Isa molds something, and blows into it...

and shows that it is only Allah that gives life...

it is to challenge, first, the entirety of people...

that only Allah gives life.

H E A L I N G 

The second one, which is healing, is repairing life.

So something had life, but lost its quality.

Again, by the permission of Allah.

R E S U R R E C T I N G

The third one, giving life to the dead, by the permission of Allah.

So something that lived, and then died, and giving life to it.

By the permission of Allah.

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isa 14

The first mirecle for the Muslims is the speaking from the cradle...

Remember Rev. Andy Stoker was mentioning some of the gospels that were left out...

that mentioned some of the mircales that Islam mentions,

But they are not considered part of the corpus of gospels today.

So the first miracle to the Christians, is turning water into wine.

'I inform you of the things that you conceal, that what you eat and hide in your homes.'

Isa a.s. was given knowlegde, He was able to tell people what they were hiding...

He was able to tell peopel of some of the secrets that they spoke amongst themselves.

So you have this child that challenges people...

totally challenges the established rabbis and scholars...

at a young age.

And now He has also been given a miracle, of being able to say these things... 

and of course that made people very paranoid about Him.

Isa a.s. is the last prophet...

of a line of prophets of Bene Israel.

And Bene Israel was a nation of miracles.

So you find prophets that raised the dead, that cured people, did many of these things.

And here, in the last prophet of Bene Israel, Allah combines many of those in one man.

So He was made a messenger to the children of Israel...

who will say indeed, I have come to you with a sign from your Lord.

I designed for you from clay that which is like the form of a bird.

That I breathe into it and it becomes a flying bird, by the permission of Allah.

And I cure the blind and the leper, and I give life to the dead, by the permission of Allah.

And I inform you of that which you eat and store in your homes.

Indeed, in that is a sign for you of you are believers.

So all of Isa's miracles are mentioned...

by the permission of Allah.

That is the frst thing.

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There are other prophets that came before Isa a.s. that raised the dead.

You can actually read about some of the Old Testament prophets that raised the dead...

You can read about old prophets that cured the blind, that cured lepers...

But Isa a.s. is the first baby ever, and the only prophet, to ever speak from the cradle.

So this is actually His first miracle.

I t   's   i n t e r e s t i n g .  

Because the Prophet a.s. said... 

that there are 3x that a baby spoke form the cradle.

All 3x that was to clear a slander, so it is actually to clear someone's name.

The first one is the story of Isa a.s., when He spoke to clear His Mother's name.

The second one was the worshiper Juraij.

A worshipper of Bene Israel who would worship Allah...

and his mother called him.to come and serve her, to do some housework.

And Juraij says: I am too busy with my worship of Allah. 

Then she supplicated to Allah, that he would not die until he met the adulteress.

Allah answered her dua, sent an adulteress to Juraij holding a baby...

saying: that is the father of this child.

And then Allah inspired the baby, to speak in defence of Juraij...

saying: actually, that is not the father.

So Allah both answered the dua of that mother...

while still honoring the worship of that man.

So it cleared a slander.

The third time...

a lady from Bene Israel that was nursing her child...

she's a slave, downtrodden, when a handsome rider passed by her.

She said: O Allah, make my child like that man.

The child spoke and said: O Allah, don't make me like that man.

Then he went back to suckling form his mother.

Then another person walks by, and this person is humiliated, a slave girl.

She doesn't look as brave and courageous as the other rider.

She doesn't have those characteristics .

And the mother says: O Allah, don't make my child like that slave girl.

But then the child said: O Allah, make me like her.

Because she was a righteous woman.

And when she asked her child, it responded...

that the one who was riding, the knight, was an arrogant man.

He's one of the tyrants among the tyrants.

And the slave girl, they blame her for stealing, and committing adultery.

But she is one of the righteous ones.

The scholars say...

that every one of the prophets was slandered.

But the slander on the side of Isa a.s., of Jesus pbuh, is the worst of slanders.

Because they didn't just slander Him, they slandered His mother as well...

with the worst types of slander.

And it's really powerful...

Because that same spot that Isa a.s. gave that khutbah from...

if you go to the Dome of the Rock today, which is part of Al Aqsa compound...

inscribed in the Cupola are inscribed these verses of Surat Maryam.

So where Isa a.s. will return once again... 

as part of the inscriptions, it says: 

O Allah,

send your peace and blessings

upon your Prophet and Servant

Jesus, the Son of Mary.

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isa 5

The first thing He says, is that He is abdullah.

He declares that He is here in servitude to Allah swt.

By doing so, He immediately clarifies He is not God.

Ánd He clears the name of Maryam a.s.

Then, He speaks to the future.

He will give me a Book, and He will make Me into a Prophet.

And He made Me Blessed, wherever I may be.

Not just blessed in Jerusalem, not just blessed in Egypt.

Blessed wherever I may be, in both comings...

both the first coming of Christ and the second.

And He has entrusted Me with the prayer... 

and with the zakat, alms giving.

As long as He is alive...

in both comings.

In both comings will He uphold the Law of the Prophets before Him.

If you think about it, the first coming Isa a.s. upholds the Law of Moses.

The second coming will uphold the Law of Muhammad a.s.

So it is interesting, because He comes with a mandate... 

to uphold the Laws that come before Him as well.

And He has made Me dutifull to My Mother.

And He has not made Me one who is wicked...

or one who brings some sort of deprivation to the one He is born to.

It is said that one of the signs of wickedness of the time is the disrespect to the parents.

And it is said that this is also one of the signs of the Day of Judgment.

The idea of children treating their parents like slaves...

that is sort of the end of the road for people...

So Isa a.s. upholds His duty to His Mother.

And it is really powerful, because it speaks again to the virtue of Maryam.

That one of the reasons for His sending was to honor His Mother.

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Ongeveer tien jaar na de oprichting van de stad Salta, 

op 19 juni 1592, werden nabij de haven van Callao in Peru...

twee grote kisten gezien die dreven op het water van de Stille Oceaan. 

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Een van de laden had de zinsnede: "Maagd van de Rozenkrans, voor het klooster van de predikheren in de stad Córdoba", vandaag het klooster van Santo Domingo. En de andere: "Een Gekruisigde Christus voor de moederkerk van de stad van Salta.” 

Twee barokke afbeeldingen van de Castiliaanse School, die werden gestuurd door de voormalige bisschop van Tucumán Fray Francisco de Victoria, die aanwezig was bij de stichting van de stad. 

Het is nooit bekend welk schip hen uit Spanje heeft gehaald of wat er verder van is geworden.

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Eenmaal in processie naar Lima, de hoofdstad van Peru, vervoerd...

gaf onderkoning García Hurtado de Mendoza opdracht om het mandaat en de wil van bisschop Vitoria te vervullen. Dus werden de beelden op de rug van een muilezel geladen en ongeveer 2.800 km getransporteerd langs de oude Inca Trail...

waarbij ze de overeenkomstige Christus in Salta achterlieten... 

en de pelgrimstocht naar de stad Córdoba voortzetten.

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In Salta werden de afbeeldingen... 

waarvan het auteurschap wordt toegeschreven aan Juan Martínez Montañés...

enthousiast ontvangen in de zogenaamde Campo de la Cruz, en na een plechtige religieuze dienst plaatsten ze de gekruisigde Christus op het altaar van de zielen — of sacristie van de moederkerk - waarna het lange tijd vergeten werd.

Na 100 jaar aankomst van het beeld in Salta...

om precies 10 uur in de ochtend van 13 september 1692... 

schudde een grote aardbeving de stad Esteco...

die definitief verwoest werd...

zodat deze kort daarna ontvolkt zou worden. 

De aardbeving werd ook gevoeld in Salta, waar ze grote schade aanrichtte...

hoewel niet zo ernstig als in Esteco!

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In de hoofdkerk van Salta... 

stond een beeld van de Onbevlekte Ontvangenis...

in een bovenste nis van het altaar, ongeveer drie meter hoog. 

Bij binnenkomst in de tempel werd het beeld van de Maagd op de grond gevonden... 

aan de voeten van Christus, alsof ze hem in een biddende houding aankeek...

zonder enige schade aan haar gezicht of handen... 

ondanks het grote formaat van het beeld... 

en de hoogte waarvan hij gevallen was. 

De kleuren van het gezicht waren veranderd. 

Bruin en verwilderd geworden. 

Dit feit werd geïnterpreteerd als voorspraak van de Maagd... 

met als gevolg dat de stad weinig schade leed.

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Het beeld werd meegenomen naar het huis van burgemeester Bernardo Diez Zambrano, waar het de hele nacht werd tentoongesteld en omringd door biddende mensen. 

De volgende dag werd het beeld buiten de Grote Kerk geplaatst, zodat iedereen het kon vereren. Daar werd bevestigd dat de kleuren van het gezicht bléven veranderen.

Aardbevingen gingen door...

zij het met minder intensiteit. 

Een van de paters van de Sociëteit van Jezus, getroffen door de situatie, hoorde een stem, heel duidelijk, die tot hem zei: "Zolang ze Christus niet in processie meenemen, zouden de aardbevingen niet stoppen."

De paters jezuïeten herinnerden zich daarop het beeld dat door Vitoria was gestuurd, en gingen de sacristie binnen om het, met grote moeite, te laten zakken op een draagstoel die diende om het naar het atrium van de gesloopte kerk te brengen, waardoor het beeld na een hele eeuw uit zijn opsluiting werd bevrijd. 

Ze plaatsten het voor de kerk die de Sociëteit van Jezus had in het centrum van de stad, en de mensen gingen er met brandende fakkels heen. Terwijl de klokken opriepen tot boetedoening, werd het beeld door de gelovigen uit Salta in processie naar buiten gehaald, met de bede om de bevingen te stoppen.

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Bij het aanbreken van de dag, op de 15e... 

stopte de aarde met trillen, hoewel ze 's nachts opnieuw schudde, te midden van processies en gebeden. Toen de trillingen ophielden, keerde op de 16e de rust definitief terug en daarmee begon men al te praten over ´het wonder.´

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Dagen later was er nieuws over de vernietiging van Esteco... 

waardoor het 'wonder' dat door de Maagd en de Heer van de kerk van Salta werd verricht, nog groter werd ingeschat.

Een nieuw leven begon voor deze eenvoudige afbeeldingen... 

en voor de mensen van Salta, die hun aanbidding en toewijding... 

tot op de dag van vandaag behouden.

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!

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'n genade voor onze gebeden en die van OLV 

van de afgelopen jaren

Those who join this project... 

in a selfless and absolutely self-denying way... 

I assure you, will be guided by the Holy Spirit... 

and the doors of manifestation will open in an inexplicable way for you. 

Because it is God's Will... 

to put an end to the suffering...

to the anguish, to the neediness, to the inequality... 

and to the lack of charity.

This is a Grace. 

Not only for you. 

But also for My Immaculate Heart.

In these last years, I silently prayed so much for this cause...

that today My Son authorized Me to be able to announce it to everyone. 

[19.7.22]

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Sainte-Anne-d'Auray...

is a village in the Diocese of Vannes (Morbihan), in Brittany. 

Famous for its sanctuary and for its pilgrimages, or 'pardons', in honour of Saint Anne. 

To whom the people of Brittany, in very early times, on becoming Christian, had dedicated a chapel. 

This first chapel was destroyed about the end of the seventh century. 

But the memory of it was kept alive by tradition...

and the hamlet was called 'Keranna'...

i.e. 'Village of Anne'.

More than nine centuries later,1624-25...

at the beginning of the seventeenth century...

St. Anne is said to have appeared several times...

to Yves Nicolazic, a simple and pious village farmer.

She commanded him to rebuild the ancient chapel. 

The apparitions became so frequent, and before so many witnesses...

that Sebastien de Rosmadec, Bishop of Vannes, deemed it his duty to inquire into the matter. 

Yves Nicolazic, and numerous witnesses, testified to the truth of events which had become famous throughout Brittany, and around 1630 the Bishop gave permission for the building of a chapel. 

presenting of Louis XIV to Virgin Mary

Anne of Austria and her husband Louis XIII... 

mother and father of the future king Louis XIV...

enriched the sanctuary with many gifts. 

Among them a relic of St. Anne brought from Jerusalem in the thirteenth century. 

And in 1641 the Queen obtained from the Pope the erection of a confraternity... 

which Pius IX [1792-1878] raised to the rank of an archconfraternity in 1872. 

In the meanwhile...

pilgrimages had begun...

and became more numerous year by year... 

nor did the Revolution put a stop to them. 

The chapel, indeed was plundered, the Carmelites who served it driven out, and the miraculous statue of St. Anne was burned at Vannes in 1793. Yet, the faithful still flocked to the chapel, which was covered with ex-votos.

In 1810...

the convent of the Carmelites was turned into a petit séminaire. 

In 1866, the Cardinal Godefroy Brossay-St.Marc laid and blessed the first stone of the present basilica. 

A new statute of Saint Anne was solemnly consecrated by order of Pius IX, 30 September 1868.

St. Anne has continued to be the favourite pilgrimage of Brittany down to the present day. 

Pope John Paul II visited here in 1996. 

Every summer...

there is the Grand Pardon of Sainte Anne... 

the largest pilgrimage in the region on July 26th, the feast of St. Anne. 

The religious services are followed by picnics, dancing and entertainment.

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In 1841... 

a local Métis named Piché... 

asked Bishop Provencher in far-off St. Boniface to send a priest to live among them. 

Priests were scarce. Bishop Provencher had only four priests to minister to a territory that stretched from Ontario to the Rocky Mountains. Still, the next spring, he sent Father Jean-Baptiste Thibault to make an exploratory trip of over 1,400 kilometers.

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In 1844... 

a small shack [keet,hut] was built to house Fr. Thibault and a young priest named Joseph Bourassa. 

Fr. Thibault immediately blessed the lake and called it 'Lac Ste Anne'. 

This was in fulfillment of a promise he had made...

to give her name to the first mission he would ‘father’. 

It was the first permanent Catholic mission west of Winnipeg.

The Oblates of Mary Immaculate...

are a society of Catholic missionaries. 

Founded in France in the early 1800’s, they are especially dedicated to preach the Gospel to the poorest of the poor and to serve in the most difficult of missions. 

With the coming of the Oblates, such as Father Albert Lacombe, the Mission enjoyed a period of great growth and importance. These men quickly gained a reputation for bravery, goodness and holiness. 

In plagues, they cared for the sick and comforted the dying, asking nothing in return. They worked for peace between warring parties and brought an end to the fighting. They preached the Gospel everywhere and many came to believe in Christ.

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Father René Rémas especially had a reputation for great holiness. 

Once, when the men were fishing on the lake and were suddenly threatened by a violent storm, their wives – fearing for their lives – ran to get Fr. Rémas. The priest went to the shore and commanded the storm and the angry lake to be calm. He sprinkled it with holy water and immediately all became still.

By 1887... 

the buffalo had disappeared... 

and the lake lost its importance as a gathering place. 

Most of the population moved away, and the mission was almost deserted. 

Its pastor, Father Joseph Lestanc, then decided to close the mission. 

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Then, on his first holiday back home to France in thirty years... 

he paid a visit to the Shrine of Ste Anne d’Auray.

He later related that while in prayer at this Shrine, God revealed to him in a powerful way that he must not close the mission. Rather, he must build a shrine there in honor of St. Anne, the grandmother of Jesus. It would be a place for pilgrims to come and receive spiritual help.

Father Lestanc was deeply moved. 

On his return, he lost no time in carrying out what God had revealed to him. 

The first pilgrimage was held in 1889, with several hundred attending. 

It soon became an annual event, on July 26th, feastday of St. Anne...

drawing people from all directions and many nations.

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2. The Miracle That Happened

J. Kirk Richards

Then, Oh God, the pain! 

I was struggling for every breath, choking [stikken] on my own blood.

I managed to roll onto my stomach. The pain was all I could bare. I looked at the sky and saw the sun was lower than I remembered. I looked at my watch. It was 5:30. My only thoughts were how I could get help. 

I noticed my rifle was not far from me, still attached to the rope I had tied around my waist. I began pulling it toward me. I managed to grab hold of the barrel [de loop] and pulled it up to me. I fired a shot about every ten minutes hoping someone would come.

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It was getting late...

and I knew I would not make it much longer.

So I began crawling on my stomach, pulling [trekken] myself with the stock of my rifle. I managed to crawl up a trail that ran down to the river. As I crawled and crawled, the pain was so great I passed out [flauwvallen] many times. Through thick brush and briar patches [doorns] I crawled. I wanted to give up, I was so tired and in so much pain. I knew though I had to make, it at least to where I could be found – I hoped.

I looked out in front of me, and saw the road I lived on through the trees. 

I could hear sounds in the distance!

“Yes, thank you God!” I thought to myself.

I finally found myself at the road and began a feeble cry for help. 

I was too exhausted though and just lay there in the road.

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My father-in-law... 

was returning from work and found me lying in the road.

“It’s all right,” I heard him say. “Help is on the way.”

That was the last I remembered, until I saw the lights inside the ER. 

A doctor stood at my feet.

“Can you feel this?” he said.

“Feel what?” I asked. 

He had been sticking my feet and legs. I was paralyzed!

“We can not help you here son,” he said. “We are sending you by ambulance to a hospital that can handle your injuries.”

Whether from the pain or medication, I was out like a light.

James Tissot, Healing of a paralyzed man

The next afternoon... 

I awoke to find two doctors... 

standing at the foot of my hospital bed. 

They introduced themselves as my attending physicians, and proceeded to explain to me I must undergo surgery at once. The bones in my back that were broken were putting pressure on my spinal nerve causing paralysis. Then I heard the warning I had heard before.

“Do not let them perform surgery, or you will never walk again!”

I understood completely, but I knew they would not. 

I told them I must see my wife and daughter first.

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My wife arrived with my daughter shortly after the doctors’ visit. 

I told her what they had said. 

She advised me that I must realize they were doing what was necessary to help me. I did not know how to tell her what I had experienced. I tried to tell her it was my belief that I should not be operated on. Although she disagreed, she honored my wishes.

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When the doctors returned... 

and I told them of my decision, they were very upset. 

I listened to lecture after lecture.

“OK,” one of them said, “if you never want to walk again, that’s up to you.” 

Then they left.

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That night I lay upon my bed and wept sorely [hevig]. 

Was I insane? What was I doing? 

A light began to fill my room.

“You will be well,” I heard a voice say. 

Then it was gone. 

I composed myself and dosed off to sleep.

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Days turned into weeks, weeks into months. 

Then one morning, I felt a tingling in my feet! 

I was overcome with joy! 

I told the nurse I wanted to get up and walk. 

She stared at me and said, “We’ll see, we’ll see.”

I knew I was healed without a doubt. 

The nurse put a call in to my doctor, and the next morning he stopped by.

“So you think you can walk?” he said.

“Yes,” I replied.

“Well, we will see.”

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A few hours later... 

I was taken down to the physical therapy room. 

They carried me down and raised me up to a vertical position. 

The nurse helped me in front of a set of parallel bars. 

I gripped the bars and placed my feet firmly on the floor. 

One step. Two steps.

“My God, he’s walking!” the nurse said to the nurse who had brought me down.

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The next few days were hard. 

I took many trips to physical therapy, and had numerous X-rays done per my doctors’ orders. 

My wife and family were all amazed, yet I knew. 

I had been told! 

The rest had to be true as well.

My doctor was more amazed when he found no bones pressing on my spinal nerve. 

I quote: “This is not normal. It seems a Higher Power has done for you what we were going to try and correct with surgery. I have never seen anything like this before.’ End quote.

Since that day, my life has changed, and I have been able to help others in ways I never dreamed. I wanted to share this with all, as it is what has led me onward in my quest for truth.

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