Hi Phil,

Thanks so much for sharing that.

I'm praying for you and Sandy, and for Adam and his family.

I'll be posting a prayer request shortly.


Thanks much.

Many Blessings,

Pat Ferguson
"I can Do all Things Through Christ Who Strengthens Me" Philippians 4:13.


At 02:47 PM 5/31/2017, you wrote:
>When we received the news about our 8 year old 
>grandson having detached retinas in both eyes, 
>we began making calls for prayer.  Throughout 
>the day, I felt odd and continually tried to 
>isolate  what I was sensing.  The actual feeling 
>felt as though I were clear of all emotional 
>harm and discomfort.  More than one person, 
>during the day we called and emailed friends and 
>family for prayer, saw the comparison between 
>what my grandson was facing and what I went 
>through at age   12 when both my retinas 
>detached and shredded.  Thirteen surgical 
>procedures and 6 months later, I was blind.  I 
>later put 2-and-2 together and realized the 
>nature of my unusual feelings.  My spiritual 
>awareness level was wide open throughout the day 
>scanning for incoming.  I’m talking about 
>incoming pain and fear and sadness but oddly 
>enough, it never came.  It should have 
>emotionally ripped and tore at me because it 
>always had done so before.  Feelings of gigantic 
>sadness should have been there, too, as memory 
>pictures flashed through my mind during that 
>day.  Yet, it never came.  My awareness of 
>incoming spiritual danger was so razor sharp, I 
>could have     sliced thin air into 
>strips.  Yet, there was no need for any action 
>on my part.  Why wasn’t that pain returning as 
>it always did.  Then I knew.  The emotions, and 
>the lies the Enemy had implanted relating to the 
>experiencing of going blind, no longer had any 
>effect on me.  The cathartic aspect of inner 
>healing had removed the anxiety and doubts that 
>always surfaced with similar issues of life that 
>came my way;  personal experiences triggering 
>the old memories of woundedness.  This healing 
>experience does not mean I have lost all 
>sensitivity to past events.  It does mean, on 
>the other hand, that lies implanted by the Enemy 
>have been healed so they, in turn, no longer 
>cause emotional pain and woundedness.  Likewise, 
>it does not mean what I fast as a boy have been 
>erased; they have just been healed so no more 
>pain exists.  Such lies are rarely seen, even by 
>professionals, because the Enemy is able to 
>disguise any lie with pain and fear and other 
>emotional devices so that healing seems 
>impossible.  It takes the Holy Spirit, in the 
>name of the true Lord Jesus Christ, to heal the 
>brokenness experienced even by Christians.
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