Miracles

August 1, 2006
This is Lincoln. Johnny, (not his real name for privacy reasons) is one of our precious little boys here. His mom died from AIDS shortly after he came to Lighthouse Shelter. He is now 4 years old. Johnny has really bad problems with his skin drying and cracking because of the medication that he is on. He has excema from head to toe and he has to wear gloves so that he doesn’t scratch himself. Yesterday he broke out in blisters on his hands and arms from some sort of an infection. The poor little boy was in so much pain his whole body was shaking. He looked so pitiful. I took him to see Dr. Neil yesterday and he got some antibiotics for the blisters. We all felt so bad for him and we’ve all been praying for him. This morning in our weekly staff meeting Sophie and Nomhle our shelter directors told us that they could hear Johnny all the way from the office this morning yelling. “I’m healed, look at my hands, I’m healed.” It was so cute. Later in the day I was working in the shelter and Johnny came up to me to say, “Daddy, take me again. Take me again, Daddy.” He loves Dr. Neil so much, he actually wants to go to the doctors office. To me this was such a perfect example of how God uses people to be his hands, and to perform his miracles. It is nothing short of a God given gift and a miracle for God to send Dr. Neil to help heal our children.