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My room at University Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama, was crowded. I gazed at the faces of our pastor, William Cox, and deacons from our church, including my husband, Brooks, gathered around my bed.<\/p>\n

For more than a year I had been fighting a losing battle against a strange liver ailment, recently lingering in a hepatic coma for three days before coming around.<\/p>\n

It seemed I had been on the critical list more often than not. But that day I felt relatively good, if weak, and my mind, thankfully, was clear. I caught Brooks\u2019s eye and he smiled reassuringly.<\/p>\n

Brooks and I attend First Baptist Church in Warrior, our hometown, where I am a music teacher. All in all we\u2019re a pretty mainstream congregation, and though we certainly believe in prayers for healing<\/a>, we had never gone in for laying on of hands or anointing with oil. We left that to other churches.<\/p>\n

But since I had come out of my coma a verse from the Book of James kept storming into my head: \u201cIs any sick among you? Let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.\u201d<\/p>\n

I had begun having trouble in 1984 and a year later was diagnosed with a rare autoimmune disorder that caused my body to attack its own liver cells. In a terrible way the biological process that was supposed to keep me well was making me sick, deathly sick.<\/p>\n

By 1986 doctors had all but given up on saving my liver. I had been put at the top of a transplant list at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center\u2013a pioneer hospital in liver transplants\u2013but no one was sure if a new liver would reverse the disease.<\/p>\n

I had heard so many medical opinions that I chose to keep one in the front of my mind at all times, something internist Dr. Roy Roddam had told me: \u201cNever forget, Virginia, that God is bigger than any disease.\u201d You know your condition is serious when your doctor starts reminding you to pray.<\/p>\n

My hospital stays had become more frequent and complicated. I suffered weight loss, headaches, extreme fatigue, confusion, jaundice and, especially dangerous, bleeding in my esophagus that sometimes wouldn\u2019t stop. My liver functions were deteriorating rapidly.<\/p>\n

During those three days when I was in a coma, Brooks had stayed by my bedside reading psalms to me, and our church kept up an unceasing prayer vigil.<\/p>\n

I came out of it, but in the absence of a miracle I was probably going to die, sooner rather than later, leaving Brooks to raise our three young children without their mother.<\/p>\n

With the verse from James echoing in my mind, I had Brooks ask Pastor Cox if he would be willing to try something different\u2013laying on hands and anointing with oil. \u201cTell Virginia I don\u2019t see why not,\u201d he had sent word back, \u201cespecially since it\u2019s scriptural.\u201d<\/p>\n

And that was why they were gathered in my hospital room on a cloudy fall day in 1986.<\/p>\n

I looked at the wreath of faces above me\u2013neighbors, friends, pastor, husband. There was a physical sensation of love pouring from them as they leaned over me\u2013warm, comforting, serene. They had prepared themselves through prayer and fasting, as the Bible instructs.<\/a><\/p>\n

Pastor Cox stood at the head of the bed, Brooks at my right, the others completing the circle. The pastor read aloud. Gently, he anointed my forehead with oil.<\/p>\n

They laid hands on me, tentatively at first. I felt the slight press of fingers and a rippling warmth. I can\u2019t say I experienced anything out of the ordinary, save for a subtle yet pervasive sensation of peace that trickled through my entire being.<\/p>\n

They finished quickly, since I could not have visitors for long. Holding Brooks\u2019s hand, I fell into a long, deep sleep.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

The next morning my liver specialist, Dr. Colin Helman, performed yet another grueling endoscopic exam of my esophagus and stomach, looking through a long fiber-optic tube to locate blood vessels in danger of rupturing.<\/p>\n

I was quite surprised to see a pleased but puzzled expression on his face when he finished, and nearly dumbfounded when he said I showed an amazing amount of improvement in the short time since the last endoscopy. He said it as if he had trouble believing it himself.<\/p>\n

\u201cVirginia,\u201d he remarked, \u201call I can say is that I am very relieved.\u201d I was stunned to hear good news when all I had been told of late was to expect the worst.<\/p>\n

Later, blood work confirmed the unexpected turn in my condition. Doctors and nurses beamed when they came into my room. People again spoke louder than a whisper. Within days I was removed from the top of the list in Pittsburgh for an urgent liver transplant and put toward the end of the line.<\/p>\n

When I was released from the hospital I had an odd, insistent feeling it was for good. Strength returned; I could eat again; there were no more major-bleeding episodes. Over the months my liver-function tests improved steadily.<\/p>\n

I felt better than I had in a long time. There was no clear medical explanation for my sudden transformation.<\/p>\n

One Sunday about a year later we celebrated the baptism of my youngest son, Hop, then 6 years old. Pastor Cox led the ceremony and I played piano. Halfway through, a parishioner raced up to me with the message that I had an urgent phone call. I knew what it probably was and quickly followed her to the church office. As I thought, it was the transplant coordinator at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. They had a liver for me.<\/p>\n

Not long before, I wouldn\u2019t have hesitated. Like many transplant candidates, I would have had a bag packed, ready to go at a moment\u2019s notice. Now I paused.<\/p>\n

I had already turned down two earlier transplant opportunities, not yet ready to face the overwhelming ordeal of surgery. This was probably my final opportunity.<\/p>\n

But if my liver was slowly healing, as it surely appeared to be, might someone else need a transplant more urgently than I? Should I step aside and trust the Lord?<\/p>\n

I told the hospital I would call back in 10 minutes and sent the parishioner for Brooks, Pastor Cox and Dr. Oliver Harper, our family physician, who was attending Hop\u2019s baptism. \u201cWhat do I do?\u201d I asked them, not so much afraid as anxious to make a decision<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Brooks covered my hand with his and all at once an almost physical memory of that day in my hospital room came rushing back. I could see the faces above me and feel the faint warmth of fingertips through the thin, crisp sheet.<\/p>\n

In an instant I knew I wanted to remove myself from the transplant list. My healing was well under way. Why interfere? \u201cWhat would you advise if I were your wife?\u201d I asked Dr. Harper.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d tell you not to have it.\u201d<\/p>\n

That was all I needed to hear. I called the hospital and told them I wouldn\u2019t be having the surgery. Then I returned to my son\u2019s baptism and took my seat at the piano as the service resumed.<\/p>\n

Today I am 49, the mother of three children, ages 22, 19 and 16. As I\u2019ve said, I come from a fairly traditional church background. I don\u2019t use the word \u201cmiracle\u201d lightly. Yet what else can I call it?<\/p>\n

I was in and out of a coma, my life hanging by a thread. I was told my liver was beyond saving, and even with a new one I would be fighting heavy odds.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

So how do I explain that 11 years later, after six inexperienced members of my church stood in a circle, laid their hands on me and asked the Lord for a healing, my liver functions better than doctors ever dreamed it would and that I enjoy good health again?<\/p>\n

No, I don\u2019t use the word \u201cmiracle\u201d lightly. Yet when I look back on my experience I find no other word that fits, no other concept that makes sense. The Lord\u2019s grace shone on me and for a reason I am not yet meant to understand fully, I was allowed to live. God showed that he is bigger than any disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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