May 19 - John Lundberg

A number of months ago I met a pregnant patient for the first time. She was deeply saddened as her mother was in the hospital and very ill from the coronavirus. She was only in her early sixties, but was not doing well. We prayed together that God would heal her mother. Unfortunately, her mother succumbed to her illness and indeed died. This was a number of months ago.

I just saw her the other day in the hospital, after having delivered her new baby girl. She had one of those births in which you could not miss God's miraculous hands in the process. Shockingly she broke her water at home, and though very rare, the umbilical cord came out and was dangling outside of her. This usually results very quickly in the demise of the baby, since with the water gone, the baby compresses the dangling cord coming through the cervix. It took her over an hour before she was able to make it into the hospital at which point one of my partners immediately performed a cesarean section on what turned out to be a perfectly healthy baby girl. This does not make medical sense.

When I saw her she relayed the story. She was filled with such mixed emotions, still so saddened by the loss of her mother, now seeing God's miraculous hand in the saving of her daughter. After hearing the story, she called her father, and the four of us, including her husband, who is not a believer at the present time, prayed to Almighty God, a prayer of praise to our God. Two circumstances, two prayers, two very different outcomes, but the same God. We pray to our God, not a genie. We may not understand why sometimes his answer is yes to our requests, while at other times it is no. But He is worthy to be praised, always.