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Sad brown eyes stared back at me from the wire cage in our living room. I poked my fingers through the holes, stroking the graying fur of my spaniel, Kelly. Eight weeks. That\u2019s how long she\u2019d be confined to this crate, if there was to be any chance of her recovering from the injury that left her unable to move her back legs. I looked up at the Christmas tree<\/a>, still decorated from the holiday a few days before. We\u2019d adopted Kelly from a rescue group on Christmas 12 years earlier, and it seemed especially cruel that she was failing at this time of year. The vet\u2019s words replayed in my mind: \u201cShe might never walk again.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m praying for a miracle,\u201d my daughter, Kate, said, huddled beside me on the floor, looking at Kelly. She and her husband, Aaron, were visiting us for the holidays.<\/p>\n

\u201cKelly is 13,\u201d I said. \u201cToo old.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat doesn\u2019t matter. You should pray for a miracle too.\u201d<\/p>\n

I knew it wasn\u2019t going to happen. Don\u2019t get me wrong, I believe in miracles, but we\u2019d already received ours. Just a year earlier I\u2019d prayed desperately as my husband, Mike, lay in the intensive care unit on a respirator. He\u2019d been given only a 10 to 20 percent chance of survival. Yet he\u2019d made it. How could I ask God for more?<\/p>\n

Kelly\u2019s ordeal started on Christmas Day<\/a>. Mike and I were headed out for a family get-together. Before leaving, I hugged Kelly close and thanked God for our best gift ever. I tossed her a present from her stocking, a pink stuffed bunny. She snatched it in midair, then trotted over by the coffee table to happily unstuff it. A spry and active senior canine. Several hours later we were canine. back home. Kate had gotten there before us.<\/p>\n

\u201cMom, I just let Kelly outside and she could barely get down the steps,\u201d she told me. \u201cIs she all right?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat? She was fine this morning,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n

I looked out the door at Kelly. She sat awkwardly in the snow. I called her name. She turned her head toward me but didn\u2019t budge. I carried her inside and made her comfortable on a soft blanket. She probably just pulled a muscle while we were out,<\/i> I thought.<\/p>\n

The next morning, Mike and I took Kelly to the veterinarian. The vet knelt down beside her, listening with her stethoscope. She gently flexed Kelly\u2019s legs and pressed along her back. \u201cHow did she injure herself?\u201d she asked us.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not sure,\u201d I said. \u201cWhen we came home from Christmas brunch, we found her like this. Could it be a muscle strain?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNo.\u201d She helped Kelly to her feet. \u201cShow me how she walks.\u201d<\/p>\n

I coaxed Kelly on the leash, but her back legs collapsed and she fell. My heart sank.<\/p>\n

After a series of X-rays was taken, the vet came back.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m afraid she\u2019s ruptured several disks in her spine,\u201d she said, pointing to one of the X-rays. \u201cYou can clearly see the bone fragments in the spinal fluid.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat does that mean?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re going to have to keep her as still as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

We could do that. \u201cFor how long?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEight weeks,\u201d the vet answered. \u201cFor even a possibility of healing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPossibility?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cShe might never walk again,\u201d the vet said.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d followed the vet\u2019s orders, keeping Kelly confined in a cage. No running in the yard or tromping with me through the neighborhood. No tagging at my heels around the house or pawing at my knee while I worked in my home office<\/a>. No jumping up on the bed to snuggle beside Mike and me every night. It had been only a few days but there wasn\u2019t any improvement. And now, watching her lower her head in the cage, I wondered if there ever would be.<\/p>\n

\u201cCome on, Mom, let\u2019s let her sleep,\u201d Kate said, standing up and helping me to my feet. I looked back at Kelly, my eyes filling. \u201cKeep praying,\u201d Kate reminded me.<\/p>\n

Of course I\u2019d been praying! But I was confused. How come God chose to heal some and not others? I\u2019d cried out to God for healing before. For my dad when he\u2019d suffered a heart attack<\/a> at only 55. For our beloved golden retriever Brooks, after a cancer diagnosis. For friends bat-tling terminal illnesses. They hadn\u2019t made it. There was no logic to miracles, not that I could comprehend. How was I to pin my faith on something so rare and tenuous?<\/p>\n

Every day for a week, I watched Kelly in that crate. She lay so still. I set her food bowls next to her. When she had to go outside, I carried her, supporting her with a sling the way the vet showed me. I kept her on a short leash, so short she couldn\u2019t even sniff around. \u201cSudden movement can cause worse damage,\u201d the vet had said.<\/p>\n

And every day after Kate went home, she called to check on Kelly\u2014and me.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m still praying for a miracle, Mom. You are too, right?\u201d<\/p>\n

Sweet Kate, trying to give me hope. But Kelly was as limp as that stuffed toy I\u2019d given her for Christmas.<\/p>\n

One night, near the end of the week, the house was quiet. I took Kelly out of her cage and carried her outside with the sling. She was old. She didn\u2019t have the strength to beat this. She struggled to move her front legs. \u201cNo,\u201d I said, circling her with my arms. \u201cBe still.\u201d<\/p>\n

The words echoed in my heart: Be still. Be still.<\/i> As if God were speaking to me. I closed my eyes and held Kelly close. Be still and know that I am God.<\/i><\/p>\n

Was it Kelly who didn\u2019t have the strength to beat this? Or was it me? I opened my eyes and looked up at the stars, at the heavens that stretched farther than I could see. The God who created a miracle of such vastness could surely heal a little injured dog.<\/p>\n

Lord, Kelly is in bad shape. But I know you can heal her, if it is your will. I am trusting you to do what is best for her.<\/i><\/p>\n

Kelly remained slumped in my embrace. Somehow, though, I felt an assurance that God was with me, no matter what happened, holding me as lovingly as I held her.<\/p>\n

The next day, New Year\u2019s Eve<\/a>, was Kelly\u2019s first follow-up appointment. The vet examined her. \u201cLet her walk,\u201d she said. \u201cLet me see if there has been any change.\u201d I supported Kelly with the sling. At first she drooped. Then she took a tentative step with her front paws. Then another. Her back legs followed. As she pulled ahead, the sling dropped. She was walking! Not just walking but trotting around the room. No sign of weakness. She scampered to the chair where Mike sat, to the door, then back to me.<\/p>\n

\u201dShould I stop her?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo,\u201d the vet said. \u201cI mean\u2026I don\u2019t know. I\u2019ve never seen this happen so fast before.\u201d She did a few more tests, gently manipulating Kelly\u2019s legs. Then the vet looked up at us, her eyes soft. \u201cI can\u2019t explain this. The recovery was supposed to take eight weeks if it happened at all. It\u2019s only been one week.\u201d<\/p>\n

I couldn\u2019t wait to tell Kate\u2026and not just about Kelly. I wanted to tell her that now I knew why she had kept urging me to pray: If we are still enough to let God in, we will see his miracles. We may not understand them, but we will see them everywhere, like the stars in the heavens.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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