Healing is from God.

On another kind of thought I just remembered that my son, when he was 3 years old, went through a time of discomfort in his body that was unexplainable to medical science. Every day he was irritable, he cried for no reason. He had no fever, he was just hot to the touch, he ate almost no food and drank very little liquid. I was getting more and more worried.

My baby's pediatrician was my colleague and friend and I talked to her because my son had been going through the same behavior for three days and I could no longer control him with pain drops when he cried constantly. He wasn't sleeping well either, neither was I, and everything was turning upside down.

My friend examined him and ordered two blood tests to determine acute viral processes the pcr and a complete hematology to diagnose an occult infectious process, then his stool and urine tests.

The results obtained did not show any positive data. Everything was fine but the child was still very weepy and now had dark bags under his eyes.

I was holding him all the time and he was clinging to me as if I was his shield. I assure you that this worried me so much because I didn't know what else to do and the pediatrician assured me that if he remained like this for 24 hours more we should admit him for further tests to find out the diagnosis.

It happened that a very dear friend of mine called me to ask about me and my son and I told her. Then she told me something like that she could offer me spiritual help with a friend of her family. She, her friend, would do prayers for children who presented a situation that was difficult for doctors to handle. This is something by the name of Eye Sickness or Mal de Ojo, as they say in Venezuela.

I had heard about this but did not imagine that my son could have such a case happen to him. This is something that happens when a person sees a child and in their eyes they have bad omens for the baby, either out of malice towards them or out of resentment against children.

As a mother, I accepted the suggestion because the pediatrician suggested that the next day I would hospitalize the child because he could become dehydrated due to the starvation he was suffering from.

It was late in the afternoon and my friend asked me to pick her up. We arrived at the house of the lady who was very kind, my friend told her that I was her friend and that my son most likely had this eye thing.

I told her what had been happening to my son for 4 days and that he would be hospitalized the next day. I did this because I wouldn’t lose anything for trying and it was my last resort before his hospitalization.

The lady called me aside and put me in front of her altar. She called the presence of Jesus Christ as the healing physician par excellence and the Virgin Mary mother of Jesus and so she began her prayers for my son's healing. She prayed and prayed and then finished by telling me that he would be fine. That he had already been healed.

I took my baby with some skepticism but I still thanked the lady for her good intentions. I asked her if I owed her money to which she just asked me to give her some white candles in return, so she could keep her altar lit, and so I did.

I carried my son and almost as I left she offered my son a soda cracker from a package she was starting to eat. My son immediately reached out his little hand and took the cookie. I was amazed and still in disbelief, I went to the bakery to buy something and took it home. I made the boy something to eat and he ate it all and then in his night he slept the whole time.

But before that, before my child fell asleep, I called my colleague and told her what happened. Of course I told her first that she would not believe me what happened and nobody believed it, she herself didn't believe me. But I told her that after 4 days my son went out eating at the lady's house and came home hungry and thirsty.

To this day my child never received one of those Males de Ojo again, but I remained incredulous at what happened.

It was only after many years that I learned that the gifts of the Holy Spirit exist, that they are given to people according to their decision. You only need to have faith and the Lord will give you that gift for life.

The gift of healing through the holy spirit, with prayers and the laying on of hands is all that is needed when you are a believer.

Today I belong to a charismatic group in my Catholic church where prayer does what man cannot do with science.

I am a doctor, I believe in science and I also believe that there are many things that have no scientific explanation, I know that too, and that is where the hand of Jesus Christ our Lord comes in.

And so my son was healed... and so was I.

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