Testimonies of Healing

MY WIFE AND I had just completed a long day of driving from St. Louis to our second home, in Maine.

I WAS SPENDING A YEAR teaching in Vienna, Austria. One day while commuting home on the bus, I felt a sharp pain in my stomach.

I NEVER EXPECTED our family vacation to end the way it did—with me battling what appeared to be a severe case of food poisoning. When it first hit, I was unable to move or breathe easily because of the pain.

I WAS PLANNING to spend that Saturday horseback riding with a friend. But when she dropped the ramp of the horse trailer we were going to use to transport the horses, the loud bang startled my horse, and she bucked me off and ran away.

MY FATHER, my two brothers, and I had started a job remodeling an unattached garage at a house out in the country. The first day was miserable for me.

ONE EVENING as I was going to bed, I felt a terrible pain in my back and hips and found that I couldn't straighten out my left leg. I also couldn't stand upright or find a comfortable position in which to sit or lie down.

WHEN MY HUSBAND and I were living in Holland with our two young children, our daughter, Kenzie, who was about one and a half years old, fell down a steep flight of stairs one evening and landed on a marble tile floor. I immediately scooped her up to comfort her.

One of my daughters experienced a significant hearing loss when she was a young child. Because of her poor hearing, she couldn't speak clearly, and her preschool teacher recommended that if things didn't improve by the time she started kindergarten, that she be put in a class for hearing-impaired children.

After offering to host an open house for a family friend, I quickly began feeling the stress of too much to do. I haven't done a lot of entertaining and was concerned about my abilities as a hostess—not to mention the shortage of prep time.

I was enjoying a motorcycle ride at dusk along a rural two-lane highway, when two full-sized whitetail deer suddenly appeared in front of me, running full speed from a cornfield onto the road. The second animal struck the left side of my body, hitting me solidly in my shoulder, neck, and head.