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Speaker 1: She undergoes surgery, and when she wakes up from surgery,

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a nurse tells her some devastating news. She's losing too

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much blood and if she fills up one more drainage bag,

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she's not going to make it. And as you can imagine,

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she's just devastated and terrified. She tries to call her husband.

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He's not picking up his phone, so she just breaks

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down in tears and she starts pleading with God to

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spare her life.

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Speaker 2: This is the Miracle Files.

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Speaker 3: I'm Emily Jones and I'm Holly Worthington. We're two sisters

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who love a captivating true story, but we're also seeking

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more light in our lives.

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Speaker 1: So we're on a mission to find and share unforgettable,

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uplifting stories of God's miracles. We hope you'll join us

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on this journey.

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Speaker 3: Welcome back to the Miracle Files. Not long ago, we

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decided to do something a little different. So we get

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so many miracle stories sent to us, and they are

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so incredible and we honestly cannot share them all. But

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we want to share them all, so we're going to

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do everything we can to share as many as possible.

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So in an effort to do that, we decided to

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read some of the miracle stories again sent to us

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through email, and the response has been incredible.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it really has.

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Speaker 1: And so we've heard from a lot of you that

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you just love to hear more miracle stories, and so

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we're going to.

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Speaker 2: Do it again.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna do it again.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: So today we've picked out five amazing stories that were

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sent in by our listeners and we cannot wait to

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share them with you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Oh guy, So let's jump in.

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Speaker 1: Our first miracle story was sent to us by Pamela Parr.

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Pamela writes on September sixth, twenty sixteen, I was leaving

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work in the small town of Saint Cloud, Wisconsin, just

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like I had every other night. As I was about

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to cross the road to my car, I heard the

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voice of my grandfather telling me put your phone in

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your pocket and don't touch it. It caught me off guard,

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but I did exactly what the voice said. I figured

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it was a warning that something unusual was about to happen.

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As I drove home, the fog became thicker and thicker,

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until I could barely see a foot in front of

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my headlights. I slowed way down because I knew the

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road was full of sharp turns. About ten minutes into

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the drive, a large pickup truck came over the hill

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with bright lights mounted on the hood and its high

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beams on. The driver flashed both sets of lights directly

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at me. I was completely blinded. I tried to pull

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over while waiting for my vision to return. Just as

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I thought I had reached the side of the road,

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I crashed head on.

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Speaker 2: Into a tree.

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Speaker 3: Oh my goodness.

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Speaker 1: At first I didn't realize how badly I was hurt.

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I tried to get out of the car, but the

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moment I stood up, I couldn't put any weight onto

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my right leg and collapsed onto the ground beside my car.

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That's when I remembered what I had heard before leaving work.

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I pulled my phone out of my pocket, called nine

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one one and tried to explain where I was. I

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told them I thought I had broken my hip and

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that I was lying beside the driver's door. Then I

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blacked out.

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Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, that gives me chills. Yeah, I cannot imagine.

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and I did not have my cell phone with me

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and in my situation. I had two angel women stop

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and help me, and they called nine one one. But

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in her situation, it is such a blessing that she

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had her phone near her in her pocket.

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Speaker 1: I know there's like fog, no one can see her,

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you think if she hadn't listened to the impression, maybe

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if she was holding her phone, or if she had

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it in the cup holder or something, it probably would

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have flown away and she, yeah, wouldn't have been able

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to that impression. But her story does not end there,

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so to continue on. The first responders arrive and they

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take her to the hospital. She's super injured. She's got

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broken fingers, she's broken her hip, she's broken her nose.

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her hip and it has been pushed up into her body.

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Oh my goodness, awful. So she undergoes surgery, and when

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she wakes up from surgery, a nurse tells her some

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devastating news. She's losing too much blood and if she

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fills up one more drainage bag, she's not going to

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Speaker 3: Oh no.

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Speaker 1: And as you can imagine, she's just devastated and terrified.

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Speaker 2: She tries to call her husband.

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Speaker 1: He's not picking up his phone, and so she just

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breaks down in tears and she starts pleading with God

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to spare her life and to allow her to continue

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to live here with her husband. And here's what she

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said happen next. I drifted into a deep sleep. That's

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when I saw a bright white light shining on me.

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the nurses call woke my husband. He began praying the

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exact same prayer, that I wouldn't die and that we

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would get to spend the rest of our lives together.

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The next morning, I woke up. The nurse who had

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warned me the night before, came back to empty the

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drains one last time before the end of her shift.

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Instead of filling with blood, there were only two drops

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across all four drains. The bleeding had completely stopped. The

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doctors were in shock. They ordered X rays, CT scans,

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every test they could perform from my hospital bed. They

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couldn't understand how I had gone from bleeding out to

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not bleeding into the drains at all. Without a doubt

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in my mind, I know I am only here because

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of the miracle God prefer formed that night.

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Speaker 3: What a miracle and so amazing that they were praying

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the same prayer at the exact same time. I think

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there is so much power in that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and obviously she had a long road to recovery,

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but she's so grateful that her prayers were answered and

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she gets to be here with her husband and they

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get to live their lives together.

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Speaker 2: So amazing. That is a beautiful story. Okay.

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Speaker 3: This next story was sent in by Karing Gotchel. Hopefully

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I pronounce that right. And this is a story she

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shared about her brother Mark about two years ago. In

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August of twenty twenty four. My brother Mark was out

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jogging on the boardwalk. When he finished his run, he

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sat down on a bench. Then he collapsed. His heart

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had stopped. But that's when God started putting every piece

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into place. An older couple who took care of the

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flowers nearby just happened to be there. They had finished dinner,

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and the wife suggested they leave the dishes and go

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water the plants, something they would normally never do. They

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immediately saw Mark collapse and rushed over. A woman renting

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the house on the corner just happened to be outside

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and saw the commotion. Her daughter in law, Samantha, is

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a nurse. She called to her, and Samantha later said

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she felt compelled drawn to run outside. She immediately started CPR.

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first responder just happens to be there at the right place,

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right time, right seeing all the time.

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Speaker 3: Just wait because there's more to this story. And as

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we've learned, CPR is incredibly exhausting to perform. But thankfully

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Samantha didn't have to do CPR by herself. Within minutes,

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another nurse who just lived a couple houses away showed

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up and they began to switch off back and forth.

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to another call, and they have a defibrillator. And then

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an anomyshesiologist shows up who just happens to live across

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the street.

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Speaker 1: This is the neighborhood I want to be in, right

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if I member were in trouble.

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place to be. So the anesthesiologist also goes on to

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help the police. He's a breathing apparatus that gets oxygen

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to Mark. And basically all these people come together. They're

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where they need to be to help save Mark's life.

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they brought him back.

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Speaker 2: Mark was rushed to.

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Speaker 3: The hospital, where doctors discovered he needed triple bypass surgery.

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Today he's doing great. Looking back, we don't see coincidences.

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We see miracles. The older couple who never would have

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gone out that evening, Samantha was home when her family

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was supposed to be out for dinner. Paige, a trioge nurse,

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was home to help a CPR. The anesthesiologist was close

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enough to save Mark's brain. Every person arrived exactly when

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they were needed. My nieces Be, who works as a

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nurse in the cardiac unit, told us, you don't understand

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what a miracle it is that he survived. People that

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have a cardiac arrest in hospitals don't often survive. That's

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why we know God was there long before anyone else arrived.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 1: I love that she gave the glory to God, because

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I mean, obviously all these people are heroes. But I

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feel like God pieced this together all the pieces. Yeah,

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so that he was able to have a full medical

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team right there on the side of the road.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I know.

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Speaker 3: And Mark didn't remember anything about this afterwards, but he

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was able to eventually go and thank every one of

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those strangers that were there that day that helps us

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to save his life.

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Speaker 2: So cool that it wasn't just one, it was so

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Speaker 3: Them, so many.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So our next story comes from twenty four year

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old Kylie Bangerter.

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Speaker 2: Again hopefully I'm saying that right.

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Speaker 1: She and her husband jac were snorkeling in Hawaii and

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they were just out exploring a big rock.

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Speaker 2: And she grew up.

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Speaker 1: Swimming, so she was a really good swimmer. But he didn't,

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so he wasn't a super strong swimmer, so he's really

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just kind of practicing swimming as he was out there.

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Oh boy, And they didn't notice the winds shifting and

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the currents changing. So Kylie writes, I popped my head

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up and these white waves just kept crashing over us.

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I looked at my husband and he said, we have

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to start swimming to the edge. So I started kicking

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and swimming, not quite in panic mode. Yet, but I

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wasn't getting anywhere. I looked at him and saw him

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starting to panic. One thing about him is he doesn't panic.

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very clear, very fast, that there was nowhere to go.

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There was no rock to grab onto, nowhere to stand

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in the fifty foot deep water. My heart just dropped.

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Rock disappeared, he got caught in the waves above me,

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and I got pulled into an undertow. It felt like

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being trapped inside a washing machine. I was trying to

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catch every breath I could, but honestly, I wasn't worried

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about me. I was worried about him. I started praying

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harder than I ever had before. I said, God, please

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save him. He has so much he still needs to do.

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I love him, He's my best friend. Please save him.

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I don't care if I make it. I'm okay. Please

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take me instead and save him. There wasn't even a

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second thought. I immediately found peace with dying, but I

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just couldn't bear the thought of watching my best friend

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die while I couldn't do anything to help.

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Speaker 2: Him.

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Speaker 1: Things started to fade, and my chest started to burn

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as water filled my lungs. I stopped trying to swim,

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and for a moment it felt like I was slipping away.

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I remembered the p well I loved in the life

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I'd been given, and I just felt grateful. Then everything changed.

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I can't really explain what happened next, but it felt

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like home. All the panic disappeared. I felt completely surrounded.

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It was warm, it was peaceful. Then suddenly it was gone.

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A wave pulled me up just long enough to catch

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a breath. Jace caught a breath too, but he was

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still struggling. We had been pulled so far out that

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I couldn't even see the rock anymore. I closed my

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eyes and prayed the same prayer one more time.

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Speaker 2: Then boom, A.

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Speaker 1: Huge wave picked us up and threw us straight into

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the lava rock. We thought we drifted far away from

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The rock was covered in sea urchins, and they went

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into my knee and all over my body. But I

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didn't care. I had something to hold onto the painment.

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Speaker 2: I was alive.

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Speaker 1: Jace tried to climb on top of the rock, but

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another wave ripped him away. I was about to go

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after him when another wave hit me and suddenly he

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was standing on.

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Speaker 1: Later, he told me he felt someone grab him or

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push him up onto the rock. He said he didn't

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have the strength to do it himself. We both knew

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in that moment that God had saved our lives.

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Speaker 3: Oh my goodness. When she was talking about like God

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taking her life instead of his life because she loved

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him so much and he was our best friend.

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Speaker 2: Oh, she cared way more about him.

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Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, I would feel the same way about

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my husband, and that just that's heartbreaking but amazing that

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they received that miracle. I'm so grateful.

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said it felt like home, like she had that same piece.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Everybody talks about that peace.

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Speaker 3: YEA.

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Speaker 2: Such a blessing.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, such a blessing. And I'm so grateful they both

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making it onto that rock.

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Speaker 2: I know me too, Okay.

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Speaker 3: The next story was submitted to us by Louise Royam Royanne.

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I'm so sorry. Why do these names have to be

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so pronounced?

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Speaker 1: Well.

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Speaker 3: Her family was traveling on vacation. Her four year old son, Dexter,

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was taken to the er where their family received the

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worst news. Dexter was diagnosed with chronic Myalloyd leukemia. And

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obviously that's a devastating diagnosis at any age, but to

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receive that at four years old, I can't even imagine heartbreaking.

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But she says they immediately began to see miracles. So

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here's what she said. We were away on family holiday

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in a completely different town when everything happened. The doctor

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at the r was only at that hospital for one day.

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Her son goes to the same school as our son,

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and she called ahead, which I'm assuming means that called

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another doctor's office so that he could get diagnosed right away.

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before we even knew what was happening at the At

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the same time, my uncle was fighting his own battle

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with cancer. He's also a priest. He helped guide me

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through the anger and heartbreak of everything we were facing.

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The prayer network that surrounded our little boy was incredible.

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People in South Africa were praying, His auntie in America

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was praying, friends in India, family in Australia and London,

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friends of friends in Dubai and Hong Kong, and all

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of their families too. The power of collective prayer is limitless.

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Even while feeling so awful, Dexter always had a smile

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on his face. Even while he was in the hospital.

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who he was, even in the middle of his own suffering,

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he was thinking about everyone else. Today, Dexter is still

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the same loving little boy. Recently he asked me, can

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we please be the homeless? So that's exactly what we did.

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Through everything he's been through, his heart has remained full

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of compassion, and that to me is a miracle too.

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Speaker 2: It's amazing that this sweet little boy who's going through

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such hard things is thinking about other people. Yeah, and

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how to serve other people.

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Speaker 1: I think sometimes that's like what happens when you go

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through really hard things, is that you have developed apathy.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: And we had another listener named Brittany Luccerini right in

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and she said, make sure you think about the fact

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that it's not just that you get comforted in the

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midst of these trials. That's not the only miracle, but

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there's also all sorts of little miracles that take place

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in the midst of our trials. And she's so right,

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like a lot of the miracles that take place are

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in our hearts during these times.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, my father in law passed away from cancer,

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and cancer is just it's the.

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Speaker 2: Worst, it's the hardest thing.

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Speaker 1: But I can tell you that we experienced so many

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miracles along the way, and I could go through all

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of the individual ones, but there were a lot of them.

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And yeah, I'm just grateful for those little signs that

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we knew that God was aware of us.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so true.

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Speaker 2: And here's our final story for today.

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Speaker 1: This story comes from Melanie Linum and this is one

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about pregnancy, So if that's a sensitive subject for you,

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just fair warning. But Melanie is working as a pastor

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in Australia and she became pregnant and she and her

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husband Dan were just so excited. And here's an excer

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from her email. At our twenty week growth scan, the

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sonographer took a long time and said he was having

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trouble looking at all four chambers of the baby's heart.

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He suggested I get up and move around to try

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and reposition the baby. I laughed and joked as I

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stood up, leaning forward and wiggling to try and move

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the baby. I had no suspicion that anything was wrong.

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The next day, my doctor called and referred me to

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a specialist scan in Brisbane. Honestly, I still wasn't worried.

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Three weeks later, the fetal cardiologists spent a long time scanning.

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Part Way through he took a call just outside the door,

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which I overheard about a baby needing heart surgery at

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just six weeks of age. I turned to Dan and

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whispered in sympathy. Imagine that the cardiologist came back in

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and said, do you know your baby has a small

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right heart. We were shocked, no, I answered. He led

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us into another room and returned with another doctor. What

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I'm about to tell you will be difficult to hear.

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Your baby has pulmonary atresia, a hypoplastic tricuspid valve, and

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hypoplastic right heart syndrome. He explained that the pulmonary heart

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valve was completely blocked up, causing the right heart to

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be small. He told us our baby would need heart

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surgery at three days old, then two more surgeries before

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the age of three. He said quality of life would

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likely be low, and we could choose termination or palliative care.

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I answered immediately, we choose the operation. Don't answer straight away,

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think about it, he said. Then he left us alone.

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Dan and I cried in each other's arms. Then Dan

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said two words that changed everything.

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Speaker 2: But God.

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Speaker 1: The next few weeks were painful. Every appointment brought more

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bad news. The baby was small. They said, if the

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baby is too small, the baby will die. We sat

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down with our pastors and tearfully told them the news.

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I said to them, but I know that God knows

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this baby. He knows if they're a boy or a girl,

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and he knows them by name. Our whole church prayed

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and stood in faith with us. We chose to give

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God every opportunity to do a miracle. We put our

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trust in him. We trusted in his goodness, in his love,

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and ultimately that whether our child lived or died, he

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was sovereign and good. A scripture I held on to

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was Psalm one fifteen fourteen. Made the Lord caused you

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to flourish both you and your children. I would place

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my hands over my belly and say, flourish, baby, flourish

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in Jesus' name. Three weeks before her scheduled see section,

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the final scan still showed she only weighed about one

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point five kilograms and the right heart was about fifty

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percent the size of the left heart. We continue to

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believe in God for a miracle. The day she was born,

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we didn't even have the car seat in the car.

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We didn't know if she would live. She was born

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full term, weighing two point twenty six kilograms, a girl.

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We named her Isabella Faith. Hours later, the pediatric cardiologist

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came into our room after doing an ultrasound. I interrupted,

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wait a minute, the right heart is meant to be

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half the size of the left heart. Well it isn't

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he answered, It's almost the same size as the left heart.

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The pulmonary valve that had been completely blocked up is

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now open, although narrow, there were also two new holes

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strategically placed that allowed blood to flow properly and bought

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Isabella time to grow before surgery. We had received a

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creative miracle. Instead of spending the estimated five months in hospital,

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she was only there for three weeks. Then we got

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to bring our baby home. At eight months old, Bella

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had a total heart repair. When I brought her back

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to our doctor, she announced to the staff, Look, this

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is the miracle.

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Speaker 2: Baby.

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Speaker 3: I love that. Oh my goodness, that one gave me

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goose bumps.

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Speaker 2: I know another amazing miracle, so.

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Speaker 3: Powerful they're faith. I'm just so inspired by all of that.

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Speaker 2: I know faith. I know it's very incredible. She didn't

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give up.

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Speaker 3: I wore my little mustard seed necklace on the right day.

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I'm telling you.

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Speaker 2: I know a lot of examples of great faith. Wow.

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And today Bella is a healthy twelve year old girl.

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Speaker 1: I love that they named her Isabella Faith because it's

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just perfect.

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Speaker 3: Name for her, for her mom showed so much faith.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, all right.

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Speaker 1: We want to thank you guys for joining us today.

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Speaker 3: See you then, thank you for joining us. If you

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have a miracle to share, contact us at the miraclefiles

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so don't forget Miracle Mondays. Subscribe on your favorite

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Speaker 3: Join us next time as we discover more of God's miracles,

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and don't forget to look for his light in your

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own lives.