Health & Hospitals
Story of the Week May 9 2009
Hello, angel friends. You are the best! Lots of you sent get-well cards and notes to JoAnn Cayce who is recovering from pneumonia, and they just made her day/week/month! I knew all I would have to do is to mention this, and you would respond. JoAnn says she has never received this much mail, and [...]
Story of the Week 2/14/09 Spirited Encounter
Jim Snyder would consider himself an ordinary man living an ordinary life, surely not one that involves angel sightings.But when his wife died of pancreatic cancer, Jim was devastated by her loss. He tried to hold everything together and deal with his grief. But as months passed and Jim’s heartache continued, “I began asking God [...]
Sleeping Bags?
Harold and Beulah Bassler, an elderly couple from Martinsburg, Pennsylvania, were enjoying their usual after-church Sunday drive. They were on a small country road, admiring the scenery, when suddenly a large car approached. The driver (who they later discovered was drunk) was aiming right for them. Harold swerved, but there was nowhere for their car [...]
So Much Left to Do
When Thomas Stevens was 22, he had a serious accident. He fell toward a window, and put his arms out to break the fall. Instead, his left arm went through the glass and he severed most of its tendons and arteries. His then-girlfriend, Sarah, had the presence of mind to make a tourniquet out of [...]
My Doctor Was an Angel
It was May, 1995, and 44-year-old Denise lay in the recovery room at Yale University Hospital in New Haven, Connecticut. She had been very ill with throat cancer for over a year. Radiation hadn’t worked, and surgery had been her only option. Now her larynx and lymph nodes had been removed, to halt the disease’s [...]
Helper in the O.R.
Bruce Kueck, an editor at a well-known magazine, needed to have a “no big deal” operation. “So, off to the hospital I went,” he says, “showing up for my one-day, in-and-out surgery at the appointed time. As it turned out, the surgeon wasn’t quite as punctual. But, since he was reportedly merely delayed by traffic, [...]
Healer Angel
Several years ago when Rob Yeske was about 18 years old, he was diagnosed with a case of mononucleosis and told to rest and stay home from school for at least a week. Rob was very ill, as it turned out—“a couple of days after being diagnosed, I was waking in a pool of my [...]
Friendly Visitors
Marti Stafford is a Licensed Practical nurse, and has three natural children and two stepchildren. Life has been a struggle primarily against poverty, but Marti has kept her faith and recently things had begun to change. Then in January, Marti became ill with a “mystery disease,” not too many symptoms but enough that she missed [...]
Answers from Heaven
When Cassandra Lockhart was a child, her grandmother Ruth probably had the most influence on her. “She taught me to pray, and was always there to support and guide me,” Cassandra recalls. But when she was sixteen, her beloved grandmother died. Cassandra was angry with God. Why had he taken her grandmother away, especially now [...]
Angels Round the World
Some, people, like Deirdre West, never think about retirement. Right now, Deirdre is 78 years old (by Indian or Chinese reckoning – they count the day you were born as your first birthday, she says) and we met via email because she is busy setting up a library for the patients in a hospital in [...]
