Miracles

                We have had some exciting things going on this past month.  In short, the Lord has done some incredible miracles in the lives of people around us.  We constantly see healings and breakthroughs in lives and hearts of the people here but the truth is we sometimes miss seeing what God is doing because of whatever distraction our eyes are seeing.  There are some instances though that screams of God presence.  My prayer for you in these next few moments reading about a new friend is that you too can see God’s living, active presence and be reminded of His greatness.  All glory and honor to my Great God.

 

Warning: Not graphic but not a pretty photo follows.  At least not pretty to everyone.  I personally am thankful for it.

                                  

Notice hole in skull on top.

This is and xray of Belindo Ernesto’s head.  He is 14 years old and came to us first in April.  He arrived with his mom where a piece of cloth tied on his head and I remember the thought as he sat there that I didn’t really want to see what was under there.  What we saw when the cloth came off was 3 large masses of soft tissue exploding from his head.  The mom said they had noticed the swelling a few weeks before and had gone to the hospital where they thought it was an abscess and gave antibiotics.  What the hospital was unable to see was that the swelling was not due to infection but to what I can only describe as a tumor.  They said it just kept growing, even while taking the antibiotics, until the skin opened up and the tissue came out.  He was left with 3 separate masses, all raised 1-2 cm and the largest 3x5cm oval. 

I took him and his father to the provincial hospital that same day not knowing what they would or could do but knowing there was nothing we could do.  He was admitted and given a blood transfusion because of anemia caused by this tumor constantly bleeding.  They took 2 xrays there that, to my admittedly limited xray reading ability, show a *hole in his skull and the lateral one shows a shadow of the mass (cannot see on the photo).  He was discharged within a week because there was nothing the hospital could do.  Belindo and his mom came to our gate on a Saturday with the xray and question of ‘Now what?’  The answer; there is nothing we can do other than daily dressings, preventing infection, controlling pain (which he rarely complained of, praise God), and walking through this journey together.  If he was going to live, God will be the one that heals. 

That was our prayer every week when we saw him until our prayers became those of thanksgiving and awe as we were able to watch these masses shrink and shrink and shrink.  Now there is no mass left, just healthy tissue waiting to be closed over by skin.  Praise the Lord!!  Now we pray that the Holy Spirit will touch the community that they would be able to see and understand that this is a miracle of the hands of the One True Living God.  Not a work of the white people or of the ancestors who are worshiped here, but of God.