Blog 304
August 14, 2023
MIRACLES NEVER CEASE!
Rev. Robert L. Wise, Ph.D. explores the world of divine interventions from an objective point of view. An Archbishop in the Communion of Evangelical Episcopal Churches with a Ph.D., Rev. Wise relates his interviews with persons who experienced the touch of God.
SHE HAD A HEART ATTACK, BUT …
A week ago I was in Tulsa, Oklahoma participating in a consecration of a new bishop. As we were waiting for the service to begin, I was talking with one of my colleagues and we began sharing spiritual experiences. Margie McCaslin is a clergyperson and a bishop in Denver, Colorado. A sensitive and deeply caring friend, Margie and I discovered that we had once had parallel important spiritual encounters.
If secularists had been eves dropping on our conversation, they would have been startled by our journeys. Closed to the transcendent and eternal, secularly oriented people assume there is no such thing as Divine intervention. They are wrong.
Margie had discovered that in Holy Communion, we can experience the life of Christ. As the Sacrament becomes “The Real Presence of Christ,” his life flows into us. Because she had struggled with a heart condition as a child, the Sacrament was paramount.
During her childhood, Margie had a pulmonary condition resulting in a valve in her heart being too small. As a three-year old child, she had to undergo surgical procedures that were painful and scary. The result was Margie was on special medications from then on.
As an adult, Margie McCaslin felt called to the ministry and began pastoring a church. A couple in the church needed help moving so Margie and her husband Glenn showed up to help. She had to climb steep stairs carrying boxes up a flight of steps. As she reached the top, Margie suddenly knew she was having a heart attack. Crumbling to the floor, she started to pray. “Please help me! Lord, this is really inconvenient!”
Like a voice coming over a telephone, Margie heard, “Go down stairs. Don’t climb these stairs again. Just push the boxes in the truck around.” A strange answer for a person with a heart attack!
But Margie obeyed.
She immediately called her cardiologist. He examined Margie and confirmed she did have a heart attack. She was immediately taken in for x-rays. Everyone was astonished. The doctor again confirmed Margie did have a heart attack, but now her heart was perfectly normal. No sign of the old problem. She had obeyed and God had answered.
Later, Margie was praying and spiritually felt herself becoming one with Christ on the Cross. As she knelt on the floor with her arms stretched out in a cruciform position, she knew the inspiration of the Holy Sacrament was working in her. She felt the Risen Christ speak. “My blood runs through you.” The result was a healing.
What the Church offers, helps us cross that divide between time and eternity. Never doubt how faith can carry you through the most difficult times.
Remember. Miracles never cease.
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