The verdict had been handed down: "Your father was an alcoholic, and you'll be one, too." But through the author's own communication with God, the verdict was reversed.
"It's gone,"
said a senior US official in one of the first formal statements to the news media about the Columbia space shuttle, which broke up over Texas just 16 minutes before its scheduled touchdown on Saturday morning at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
What's important now for the space program—and in any situation where endeavors have been aborted by tragedy—is to learn the lessons that will make future efforts more safely successful.
Spiritual healing is effective in healing the effects of accidents and injuries, as this article explains. And there's always a further benefit in learning something new about God.
Two women—one a lifelong student of Christian Science, the other relatively new to what it teaches—explain how they prayed to God when faced with alarming physical conditions. The first was healed of breast lumps (Persistent prayer brings healing). The second found complete freedom after she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease (My journey forward to complete health).
Nobel Prize winner and renowned cardiologist Dr. Bernard Lown says there's a big difference between curing someone and healing them—something that has to do with the ability to listen.
