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Let me expand a bit on my claim that God doesn't do miracles for these kids:
When a baby is born, there is an opening in the heart known as the Patent Ducuts Aorta. Basically, it is designed to help blood move from chamber to the other. It closes a few days after birth, in most cases.
In kids like my daughter, that closure is fatal, unless they have surgery, becuase htey have no other way to get oxygenated blood to the lungs.
When I say that God doesn't work miracles for these kids, I mean this: Withour medication to keep it open, that PDA is goign to close, and the child is going to die. That's not a matter of faith. It's a matter of fact, rooted in the physiology of the body.
So, if God had compassion for the prayers of the parents of these children - if he were willing to work miracles for them - shouldn't they be sparedthe pain of open-heart surgery (my daughter has had three)? Shouldn't the PDA simply remain open by God's grace?
I've spent many nights in the Pedatric Intensive Care Units - and experienced the suffering of too many parents and children - to believe that God is very interested in intervening to right the situation.
Let me expand a bit on my claim that God doesn't do miracles for these kids:
When a baby is born, there is an opening in the heart known as the Patent Ducuts Aorta. Basically, it is designed to help blood move from chamber to the other. It closes a few days after birth, in most cases.
In kids like my daughter, that closure is fatal, unless they have surgery, becuase htey have no other way to get oxygenated blood to the lungs.
When I say that God doesn't work miracles for these kids, I mean this: Withour medication to keep it open, that PDA is goign to close, and the child is going to die. That's not a matter of faith. It's a matter of fact, rooted in the physiology of the body.
So, if God had compassion for the prayers of the parents of these children - if he were willing to work miracles for them - shouldn't they be sparedthe pain of open-heart surgery (my daughter has had three)? Shouldn't the PDA simply remain open by God's grace?
I've spent many nights in the Pedatric Intensive Care Units - and experienced the suffering of too many parents and children - to believe that God is very interested in intervening to right the situation.
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