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TITLE: When all else fails | Previous Challenge Entry
By Milton Niles
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As James sat by his beloved wife of fifty years, he began to cry. Mary has a brain tumor which the doctors have said there is no cure. They told him it was impossible to operate because of the size plus the location. She will not last more than a couple of days if that, here in the hospital James did not know what to do. He knew he could not live without his Mary.
James began to visualize their times together from the first time he laid eyes upon her. He was only sixteen at the time, Mary was only fourteen. He courted her for two years then asked her father if he would give them his blessing in marriage. The following June they were married. James worked in a stone quarry from sunup to sundown every day for forty years. He and Mary had four children, John, Andrew, Rebecca, and Steven.
All their children had married except for Steven. He had become a minister and traveled the world preaching the gospel of The Lord. Rebecca returned home to help take care of her mother after she learned of her illness. She had just left to go home and get something to eat. Her husband had no other choice but to remain back in Iowa to care for their children and to continue working. Andrew served in the Navy. He was out of the country, out to sea where he would be unable to get home for another month or two. John lived in Pennsylvania with his wife Emily. They also have a son called James after his grandfather. They would be coming in on the three am flight but would not get there until around five o’clock in the morning.
James’s thoughts returned as he felt a hand on his shoulder. Turning, he saw a young man standing there and asked if he could help him. The man said no but he was there to pray with him.
“Did Pastor Robert send you here young man?”
“No sir, my father sent me here to be with you and Mary and to pray with you.”
With that the two men kneeled in prayer. This is their prayer.
‘Heavenly Father, we kneel here before you tonight giving you thanks for all of your blessings. We also ask dear Father that you might allow our beloved Mary to remain here yet awhile longer. We know that with you all hope is ours for the asking. We humbly pray for strength and guidance in our grief. With you all things are possible.’
Right after the prayer James opened his eye, to his surprise the young man had left. When the nurse came into the room he asked her where the young man went. The nurse told him not a single person had been there since his daughter left twenty minutes ago. James thought he must be going nuts, he was sure there had been someone there with him.
It was about an hour later when Rebecca returned to the hospital. The doctor came in to check on Mary and as he did, he noticed her breathing seemed to be more normal. Upon his touching her, she awoke, said she was hungry and wanted to go home. The doctor told her she needed to stay and to rest.
“There is nothing wrong with me I am going home!”
She jumped out of the bed, told James to come so she could get supper ready. Mary seemed quite normal so the doctors told her to let them examine her before she left.
Upon the table they did a MRI scan and to their astonishment, there were no signs of a tumor ever being there, James knew at that moment that God had sent an angel to be with him and Mary.
When all else fails, God in his compassion gives life a renewal.
When faith is there, hope never fails.
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