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[jayrod4321]

I was at the NICU with my stepsister and her newborn baby( who is doing fine now after two strokes, thank the Lord!) and I came apon a family who had triplets, and two of them died. I ask that you pray for them.

 

[pastorlesofm]

I was at the NICU with my stepsister and her newborn baby( who is doing fine now after two strokes, thank the Lord!) and I came apon a family who had triplets, and two of them died. I ask that you pray for them.

We all here at CD will be standing in agreement with you

 

[Martin W.]

I am very reluctant to post this because it is private and very personal to me. I have never gone public with this and you will understand why. The people involved (my sister and her daughter) will never be on this forum so I will share a bit here.

Briefly: Several years ago my younger sister gave birth to two very premature babies. They were weighed in ounces because they were so small. There was no hope they would survive.

For some reason my sister desperately phoned me for help. She is trained in the psychiatric field and is as atheist as they come. She absolutely mocks anything Christian and thinks we should all take a reality pill to get us out of our stupor.

Yet she phoned me. She cried on the phone and I cried on the phone and said the only possible thing that could work would be to pray for a miracle. She hissed on the phone and I know her eyes would be rolling backward hearing such nonsense from me.

Nevertheless, after we hung up the phone I had one of those tearful, mourning, pleading type prayers that we men seldom make. One baby died the next day and the other one had heart surgeries and intensive care for weeks in a row. She lived and today she is 18 years old.

Back then when it was certain that she would survive I remembered to thank God for the answered prayer and then proceeded to give him heck for letting the other one die. I did not mince my words while giving him heck. As clear as a person can hear a message from above I was told:

"One prayed" ..... "one did not" ..... "One lived" ..... "One did not" ...

I got the message but continued to voice my disappointment because I had been praying for both babies. I expect there to be more to this story some day. I just do not know what it will be yet.

My sister and her family live thousands of miles away and I have only seen the surviving daughter about 4 times. She is a healthy young girl with a few (guilty feelings) of surviving while her twin died. Her mom is a walking pharmacy and has plied her with every anti-depressant and happy pill known to man for all these years.

The 4 times the family has been here for a visit the surviving daughter always stands off to the side and looks longingly at me as though there is some kind of special bond there. We have had very few words and some day when she is not smothered by prescription drugs and doctoring parents I expect she will come asking me some questions. I hope I say the right thing.

Not sure why I wrote all that. I hope it has value to someone. Prayer works. There is nothing more innocent than a tiny baby.

Bless you all as you pray .