Health & Hospitals
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 [...]
Angel in the Waiting Room
Karen Baldonado-Hensley had loved Ronnie for fifteen years, although he had hemophilia and life was difficult. “His life had been racked with illness and operations,” Karen says, “and he was HIV positive too. In 2000 he got extremely ill and we knew that the end was not far away.” In January of 2001, Ronnie entered [...]
A Father Suffers for His Son
“There is no easy way to tell you,” the doctor looked at Anibal and Lillian Zambrana. “Your son Raul has Hodgkin’s disease.” It couldn’t be happening. But it was. Their youngest boy, the delight of their lives, had become a victim of an illness Lillian had only read about. “Will he be all right?” she [...]
