Prayer

When my daughter was 10months old I almost lost her. She spiked a high fever and suffered convulsions from the high temps of her body. There was never a firm reason for why this happened. It had been several days, many test and the doctors where finding no reason for the fever, or where it was coming from. But I remember the night the doctor told us that if we were believers we may want to call our clergy. It was a scary night for a mom of 19 years old. It was that night that I am sure I experienced a miracle. Through the prayers of many believers my daughter's fever broke, there was never a repeat of incident and she was fine. At the time I was in a place where God was a distant relative. I was raised to believe and always felt like God was near but I certainly was not at a place where I was conversing with God. But I knew then that I had seen something out of the ordinary, and something that did not make logical sense.

Ahead 26 years....

A week ago my daughter now 27, a beautiful, healthy young women entered the hospital to give birth to my granddaughter. I arrived in Miami at 3:00pm and left the airport for the hospital. Maya was born at 11:32 that night. 20 mins after Maya was born my daughter crashed, she went into heart failure. This time I wasn't looking into the eyes of Ryan's daddy but the eyes of my daughter's husband and knew what he was feeling because I was too and I had felt it before, desperation at the thought of Mark and I loosing her, at the thought of JC and Maya loosing her. This time it was not prayer by proxy but my own words to a Father I now know much better, the prayers of her daddy, and her husband, that begged the Father for the life of my daughter. It was again a long a scary night as I sat beside her bed and waited hour by hour for improvement that would tell us she was going to get better. As the night went on, more and more prayers were offered as our family learned of Ryan's condition. I believe again something out of the ordinary, and something that did not make logical sense was happening. For the next several days, and still today the doctors are asking many questions that they have yet to find answers. Neither can they explain how quickly she regained strength, enough to go home and care for her baby.
Is she well? no, we now know she has heart disease. The doctors are not sure yet if it is congenital or not, or caused in childhood, but I am questioning how these two events are related. We have a lot ahead..but I am confident in the power of prayer and I know God is hearing a choir of voices on Ryan's behalf.
I also know this, God knew Ryan's heart and put her in the right hospital, when her OB changed hospitals just a few weeks before she was do to deliver and as the spirit prompted me to change may plans as I was not scheduled to arrive till 4 days later than I did and as I planned to stay with Ryan for 4 weeks when she had Maya and everyone thought I was crazy. I never really understood why I decided to stay that long but now I do.
The other thing I know that when I prayed last week, God was remembering when I spoke those same words to him 26 years earlier even if I didn't think my prayers were worthy to be heard, he listened and acted.