WHERE ANGELS WALK, Jan 7 2012, Extra Angels?

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January 8, 2012

—“I can’t stand to think what we and the poor would do without you,” wrote Joannie Cayce just a few days after Christmas. Once again, she and her extended family had managed to bring food, clothing and gifts to over 700 children in Thornton Arkansas, thanks in part to donors like you. For those of you who are new to this list, Cayce Charities is our Earth Angels’ designated charity, because the poverty there goes on all year. The Cayce family started the work more than forty years ago, and it continues today because the need continues—jobs are scarce, food stamps run out about midway through the month, and for many, underwear is a luxury.

We “angels” shop at garage sales, send WalMart certificates or outgrown toys (and occasionally someone packs up a truck and just GOES.) Occasionally we get a letter from the Cayces, updating the services we have helped to sustain. It makes me feel as if we are doing what Mother Teresa always suggested, “Bloom where you are planted.”

If you are already volunteering in your own community or caring for those who need you, please don’t stop. Cayce Charities is mainly for those who are looking to get involved in something on-going, but there’s no commitment necessary. We’ll keep you posted.

PS The address is Cayce Charities, 403 South Second Street, Thornton Arkansas 71766

And here’s the story:

On the day that Amy Pruitt’s little boy was born, the doctors were grim. Baby Cory had so many physical problems that he was not expected to live past a few hours. “Don’t even hope,” Amy’s doctor told her, trying to prepare her for the loss.

But Amy was hearing a different voice inside her. “Somehow I knew that despite his difficulties, Cory would be healthy,” she says. And her son did make a miraculous recovery. He was deaf, but this did not intimidate Amy. “I had always heard that deaf children were easy to raise,” she says. And Cory’s life seemed to prove it.

He was a bright, sunny little guy, with what seemed to be a deep spiritual connection. When Cory was about eight years old, he asked his mother if she remembered when he was a sick newborn. “How could I forget?” Amy asked.

“Well,” Cory said, “I saw Jesus then.”

It was a wonderful story. But could she believe it? A few years later, Cory fell through the ice on a river, but ended up safely on shore, with no explanation of how he got there. Later he told Amy that an angel had picked him up and placed him on the shore. Amy had goosebumps. The evidence supported Cory’s statement perfectly.

“ Last year a five-year-old friend of ours was in intensive care with a ruptured spleen,” Amy recalls. “I asked Cory to pray.” A few hours later Cory came to his mother. “He looked as if there was a glow of some sort around him,” she says.

“I just finished talking to God,” Cory told her. “That little kid is going to be fixed.” The next day the boy was fine. The bleeding had mysteriously stopped in the night. A few months later, Cory’s grandmother had a massive stroke and it seemed hopeless. Again Cory prayed, and his brother reported that Cory was glowing, and said that Grandma would be fine. She made a complete recovery.

Just recently Amy was told that her initial belief—that deaf children are easy to raise—was not true. In fact, most presents major challenges. And yet “Cory has always been a very good kid, a joy and a gift in our lives,” she says. The whole family waits to see what will happen next.