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Most afternoons, I pick up my son\u2019s daughter from preschool and bring her to my house for snacks and playtime. It\u2019s the highlight of my day. She\u2019s the apple of my eye. She munches carrots at our kitchen table, then plays alphabet games on the computer, or we go to the mall to watch people ice-skating and do a little shopping.<\/p>\n

This year my granddaughter turns five, an age etched deeply in my heart. It\u2019s how old my son, Paul, was when something happened to him that I\u2019ll never forget.<\/p>\n

Now Paul is in his fifties, and I haven\u2019t spoken to him in years. He\u2019s struggled with alcoholism and has been in and out of Alcoholics Anonymous programs, the reason I\u2019m writing this true story without our last name. He and his wife divorced soon after their daughter was born, and Paul lost custody. I\u2019m not even sure where he lives. Still, I pray every day that God will heal him from his demons. Maybe it seems na\u00efve to believe that God will help save someone who appears to have no interest in saving himself. But there is a reason I believe.<\/p>\n

The year Paul turned five, everything was changing in our family. I had gotten a promotion at my accounting firm, and my wife and I moved with our three children, Paul and his two sisters, from Florida to Colorado. I was torn about the move. I grew up in Florida and most of our extended family lived there.<\/p>\n

But we found a two-story wood-frame house to rent in a pretty neighborhood in Wheat Ridge, a suburb west of Denver, with a spectacular view of the mountains. We joined a church and enrolled the kids in school. We quickly made friends with some of the people from church.<\/p>\n

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One afternoon, about three months after the move, my phone rang at the office. It was my wife, crying hysterically.<\/p>\n

\u201cPaul is in the hospital!\u201d she managed to get out between sobs. \u201cHe was playing upstairs and stood on the windowsill. He fell through the screen onto the concrete driveway. It looks really bad.\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0.\u201d<\/p>\n

I fought my way frantically through the Denver traffic, repeating my favorite Bible verse, Isaiah 43:2: \u201cWhen you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you.\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0.\u201d<\/p>\n

All I could think about was the day Paul was born, a healthy nine-pound, three-ounce baby, the son I\u2019d always wanted. How could this have happened to him? All my adult life I\u2019d used my analytical mind to succeed in my career and in everything else. Now my mind was useless. I blamed myself for choosing the promotion and the move. We\u2019d lived in a single-story house in Florida. This never could have happened there!<\/p>\n

I finally got to the hospital. I raced to Paul\u2019s room. My wife was with him, along with a doctor and a nurse. Our Sunday school teacher, our pastor and two other friends from church had heard the news and gotten to the hospital before me. Paul lay motionless in a bed that looked like a crib, with protective railings on all sides. He was in a hospital gown, his eyes closed, his body a mass of bruises.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s bleeding internally,\u201d the doctor told us. \u201cHe has several broken ribs, a blood clot in his brain and severe damage to his back. I\u2019m very sorry, but we don\u2019t expect him to survive.\u201d The doctor and the nurse gave us the room to contemplate our son\u2019s fate.<\/p>\n

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My knees gave way. I sank to the floor. My wife knelt beside me and I held on to her, trying to keep from dissolving. I heard my pastor praying.<\/p>\n

I knew I should pray too. It was hard to focus my mind. I began to pray in a whisper, \u201cPlease, God, save my son.\u201d Even those words were difficult to say. \u201cTake all of me,\u201d I prayed. \u201cFrom now on I give everything to you. Just please, save my son.\u201d<\/p>\n

A certain feeling, unlike anything I had ever felt before, came over me. Like a shift in the room\u2019s atmosphere. As if it was being pumped full of something, heavier than the air but colorless and odorless. It enveloped me, a light pressure at first, then increasing with strength. It rippled down my shoulders, tightened the muscles in my chest and squeezed my stomach until it hurt. Some presence in the room seemed to be holding my trembling body close, taking away my breath and all my terrified, despairing thoughts.<\/p>\n

The feeling intensified until I worried I might be crushed. Then all of a sudden it vanished.<\/p>\n

The change lasted no more than a moment. Before I even opened my eyes, I heard a whimper. I looked up to see Paul\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0. standing on the bed, his hands on the railings.<\/p>\n

\u201cDaddy, I\u2019m hungry,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

I leaped to my feet and wrapped my son in my arms, forgetting for a moment about his broken ribs, his internal injuries. I came to my senses and pulled away, but Paul hadn\u2019t flinched, didn\u2019t wince in pain. Instead, he grinned. I hugged him again, even tighter.<\/p>\n

My wife, our pastor and everyone else rushed to join us and we became one tangle of tearful joy. I knew God had visited that room. Paul had been healed.<\/p>\n

Pandemonium broke out as our friends from church began praising God and the doctors and nurses ran back in to see what was happening. \u201cWe need to do more X-rays,\u201d the doctor said. \u201cI don\u2019t understand what\u2019s going on. What we\u2019re witnessing is impossible.\u201d<\/p>\n

To me, Paul looked ready to go home. But I told the doctor he could keep him at the hospital as long as necessary. \u201cFor two days, I think,\u201d the doctor said.<\/p>\n

My wife and I remained at Paul\u2019s side until visiting hours were over. Then we went home. Neither of us could sleep that night.<\/p>\n

\u201cDid you feel it?\u201d my wife asked. \u201cIn the hospital room?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou felt it too?\u201d<\/p>\n

The following morning, the nurses, at their wits\u2019 end trying to get our five-year-old to sit still in his room, called us to come take him home. His latest scans had shown no internal injuries at all.<\/p>\n

Many years have passed since then. I\u2019m retired, remarried, living in Texas now. But the memory of that day hasn\u2019t faded one bit. I still see Paul\u2019s grin every time his little girl lights up at something I say that she finds funny, and I remember my son standing on his hospital bed. The presence, the embrace that I felt, that my wife felt. I ask myself, did Paul feel it too?<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not sure when Paul will stop falling. But I hope that he reads this and knows he is not alone. I hope he can find the healing and peace only God can deliver. I\u2019ve witnessed it before, and I believe someday I\u2019ll witness it again.<\/p>\n

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