Jude 2

http://www.thestate.com/breaking/story/629997.html


...On the afternoon of Nov. 5, as family and friends prayed about the decision, a nurse practitioner called Colleen's attention to a monitor showing the door to the pediatric intensive care unit.

“On the monitor, there was this bright light,” Colleen recalls. “And I looked at it and I said, ‘Oh my goodness! It looks like an angel!”

Colleen pointed her digital camera at the monitor to take a photo of the image, but the “first picture wouldn't take.”

She tried again and succeeded. The image gave her a peace that stayed with her when hospital staff removed Chelsea's oxygen mask.
And then, “when they took the mask off of her, her stats went as high as they've ever been.

“Her color was good, and the doctors and nurses were amazed,” Colleen said. “The nurse practitioner who saw the image in the monitor said, ‘I've worked here 15 years, and I've never seen anything like it.'”
Chelsea was removed from intensive care on Nov. 14 and went home three days later.

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The immediate results seem like a pray answered also? What say ye?

I'm with Cristy Lane, I believe in angels.

I hope Chelsea was the only child on that floor that day. What pain other parents with children on the floor would have, what anger, if they thought that God's angel had passed over their own dying children to heal just one or to extend her life. That, to me, would be very difficult to overcome. Not that I reject the idea that God did something special for her that day -- I believe He did. But, if I'm the parent of the kid in the next room, and my child is no better than he/she was that day, I'm wondering why it seems that I didn't get anything.

Tim, I understand your point but that's really the whole problem of suffering and whether God ever intervenes in any of our situations.

DeWayneTN wrote:Tim, I understand your point but that's really the whole problem of suffering and whether God ever ntervenes in any of our situations.

I know. And, I'm thankful to God for this miracle for this girl AND her family. I don't like the whole people-suffering thing, especially kids.

God's will is the wildcard, eh?

I'll have to leave those final decisions to His perfect judgement because I don't think He makes mistakes. Even if someone did site a case.. it's not like anyone can challenge that final decision. This isn't a court of law.

With that said, I do think we can reject blessings or invite consequences for our actions or lack of etc.

dolfan wrote:I hope Chelsea was the only child on that floor that day. What pain other parents with children on the floor would have, what anger, if they thought that God's angel had passed over their own dying children to heal just one or to extend her life. That, to me, would be very difficult to overcome. Not that I reject the idea that God did something special for her that day -- I believe He did. But, if I'm the parent of the kid in the next room, and my child is no better than he/she was that day, I'm wondering why it seems that I didn't get anything.

Tim, do you believe the other people at the pool of Bethesda had pain and anger at the thought of one lame man healed while they remained in their conditions around the pool? Just asking...

John 5:2-9

Now there is in Jerusalem by the sheep gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew Bethesda, having five porticoes. In these lay a multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, and withered, [waiting for the moving of the waters; for an angel of the Lord went down at certain seasons into the pool and stirred up the water; whoever then first, after the stirring up of the water, stepped in was made well from whatever disease with which he was afflicted.]

A man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years.

When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had already been a long time in that condition, He said to him, "Do you wish to get well?"

The sick man answered Him, "Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I am coming, another steps down before me."

Jesus said to him, "Get up, pick up your pallet and walk."

Immediately the man became well, and picked up his pallet and began to walk.