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One healing she recounts is of a child
who was born as a complete little person except that one arm finished at the
wrist. The parents brought this child to her and asked her if she could heal
it. She said she could not, but that all things are possible to God. She
pointed out that when the baby is in the womb and the hand is formed in the
usual way on the arm we do not think of it as a miracle. We expect it to
happen. Why should not God perform it just as easily when the child has already
been born three years? Why should this be a miracle? In her account it is quite
a vivid story of how the parents and friends watched, and month by month that
little hand opened up like a flower and then blossomed into a complete and
perfect hand. "Life is forever spontaneously self-renewed" (Coll 235).
Life cannot be limited; God cannot be
limited. So everything that we need in the way of good is ours if we open our
hearts and our lives to it. It is a matter of being open and expectant of good,
just as a child demands its parents' love and care and protection. There is
total expectancy in a child. Let us be the child of the Life that is the Father
and Mother of all goodness. So many things seem to follow from a sense of
poverty and lack, — things like jaundice, consumption, poverty itself,
fear of failure and so on. They are the shadow, and we do not have to have them
because they are unreal. If we will let the abundance of Life pour forth, we
are not going to be deprived or suffer physically from a sense of deprivation.
There may be a fear, perhaps, in some countries, that if certain political
solutions come about, a lot of people would lose their standard of living.
Well, that does not have to be, because it is Life that gives us the standard
of living and that same Life can feed and supply a rich standard for everybody.
Everybody has access to the ten times table in mathematics. Everybody has
access to the letters of the alphabet; they are not limited.
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