Do You Believe In Miracles?

by Alyson Turner, aka alyson1

  Here is the question – do you really believe in miracles, and answered prayers?

  Is it even possible to love someone who you have never met, and live miles away from?

  What do you think you were put on this earth to achieve? What is God's plan for you as a person?

  If you were to ask me this before my MS diagnosis, I would have said I have no clue.  Now after all my experiences, I say that I was put here to help others.
I have always been one to help others, if it's opening a door for those who can't, or taking care of people in a nursing home (cook, CNA, housekeeper, and laundry), or sitting with an elderly lady who has Parkinson's.

  I have, I hope, helped plenty of people emotionally via the internet, or the phone.  My latest is a 21-year-old girl who has RSD and fibromyalgia.  She has been a wreck and has tried to take her own life more  than once.  I thought she was over that.  The last few weeks we have laughed, joked, and cried.

She hates her life, and I tell her to believe in God; he will help you out if you believe in Him.

  Well, over the last few days her fibromyalgia has been at an all-time high in pain.  She just couldn't stand it any longer.  I would usually talk her out of feeling this way, and keep her mind off of the pain – emotionally and physically.

  But last night she took a handful of various  pills, then she told me "Bye."  We have discussed this, and "bye" is such a hard word, so we say "CYA."  Well, she told me "Bye."  I burst out in tears.  I thought that was it, and said if she did make it to the other side, "Come and see me," then cried myself to sleep thinking this poor young soul will be gone forever. I felt like a failure.

   So this morning, I hesitated to log in to the internet, but in the back of my mind I thought if I did maybe she would be on there and we could joke and laugh.
So finally at 11am I logged in, and her name was lit up on Yahoo Messenger.

  I thought "YEAH, she is alive!"  But to my surprise it was her mother-in-law, and once again, my heart sank!!  The first thing I said was "Where's Stacie?"

She hesitated to answer, and I thought her reply would be "She's gone," but instead she said "She's in a coma; her husband found her at 11pm last night."
Then she says she has a 20% chance of making it out of the coma, and she is on life support.

Then I logged off again, and laid down and said a prayer – "Lord please help this soul, keep her in your arms, and show her what she has to do on this earth, and that she's worth way more than what she thinks."

   At 2:11pm today they pulled the plug, and to everyone's surprise, she squeezed her husband's hand, and said "I'm not done with this world yet," and asked about me.  She told her mother-in-law to get back on the internet and tell me not to worry about her anymore, that she was fine.

  This is so impossible!!

  I always say, "Once a friend, always a friend."

 SO I ask again, do you believe in miracles, and answered prayers?

  I sure do!!!

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