Healing
My grandmother belonged to a prayer band of about six mature women who were always doing good deeds in our little town. They were also midwives and “Holy” women.
They wore long skirts and hats and sensible shoes. They were always visiting and comforting the sick.
They had church services nearly every day.
Many people were afraid of them, saying they could look right through you!
One day I was sitting on the steps of a store crying because a girl had called my grandmother a “ crazy old woman”.
Granny came out and asked what was the matter. I told her.
She replied that she had been called worst names by smarter people than that girl.
Exactly one year later, the same girl was in labor. The person who was supposed to assist her had to go out of town.
Her frantic family came to my Granny and told her the problem.
Granny did not answer them. Instead she got the newspaper and started reading.
Shocked, I asked my Grandmother if she was going to help the poor girl, who had been screaming for hours in labor.
She answered “Yes. I will go when God tells me to go.”
Then Granny picked up the sports page.
A couple of hours later Granny must have heard from God because she got her big bag and she and two of the others went to help the girl.
They calmed her down with a soothing tea and taught her how to breathe. After about thirty minutes with the Holy women, the girl relaxed and gave birth.
Granny said the baby was delayed because the girl wasn’t breathing right and was too scared.
The Holy women spent another hour helping the girl, cleaning the house, cooking, and bundling the baby.
Then my grandmother looked at the exhausted girl and had the last word, as usual, “I guess old crazy women are good for something!”
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