Second Opinion

A little over a month ago I had an MRI on my knee at the world-famous Stedman Clinic in Vail. They confirmed my suspicion that I had a torn meniscus and that surgery was needed.

Instead of surgery and rehab in the ice and snow and having to climb stairs to our condo, we packed up for a rehab trip to Texas to see if the warm climate and walking without slipping might help the healing process and potentially forgo surgery.

For a couple of weeks, I limped around Texas attempting to rehab. It was a little better but still hurting. Then one day we heard our house painters we had in our home down here speaking about God and their love to pray for people. So I asked if they would pray for my knee. Only the husband could speak English. They agreed and the wife, a Honduran, spoke through her husband that first, she must wash my feet. I wrote our blog about the foot-washing story of Easter a week before this!

After she washed my feet she began to pray fervently and with an intensity I had never witnessed. It was in Spanish and then her prayer language. She shed tears as she prayed. When finished her husband asked how it felt. I sadly said that it still hurt. She said, “We go again.” Another 5 minutes of fervent prayer. This time I said that there was a change. She said, “We go again.” After the third time, my knee was healed. The pain was completely gone in my knee. The muscles in my leg that had atrophied some during all the limping for months, still hurt but I knew that exercise would fix that.

Yesterday, after a couple of weeks of walking to rehab those weak muscles my entire leg is now healed and back to normal. I have witnessed the amazing, limitless, overwhelming, available power of healing prayer. My life will never be the same.

While the leading knee clinic in the world had a diagnosis and firm opinion about surgery, I got a second opinion from God through the most unsuspecting people, our Hispanic painters, whom we thought were just here to patch the holes in our walls and do a little touch-up painting. They did not go to seminary or lead a church and have only followed Jesus for 1.5 years.  They just love Jesus and love the Bible’s command to go and pray for the sick. It brings great meaning to this verse:

“But God chose the foolish to shame the wise; God chose the weak to shame the strong. God chose the lowly to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast before him.”

- I Corinthians 1: 27-28