The Heartfelt Gift

For  seven  years  I have  been  witnessing  miraculous healings  through  the  intercession  of  Saint  Sister Faustina, and yet  I was convinced that the miracle would never happen to me. I was set in thinking that MS was an incurable illness and nothing and nobody could change this fact. I was wrong. In  August  2016  I was  in  a  sanatorium  in  Wie-niec-Zdrój. Behind the complex there was a small new church of God’s Mercy, in which some relics of Sister Faustina are kept. On Thursday 11th August 2016 at 7pm I attended a Mass there. During the ceremony the priest talked about healings which had occurred through the saint’s intercession. At that moment I felt an acute, piercing pain cutting through my skull like a dozen daggers. After a while the pain ceased, and I realised  that  God  had  somehow  targeted  multiple lesions lodged in my brain. I asked, very quietly:Lord, is it possible that it’s my turn now? Is it possible that You are healing me?I felt the pain in my spine fading. My legs no longer felt heavy. My heart filled with joy. I  did  not  pray  for  a  miracle,  but  I knew  that  my 11husband,  kneeling  next  to  me,  was  begging  for  my healing. At that moment, looking at the painting of St Sister Faustina, I saw Her eyes come alive and move around; even her eyelids moved. I have seen eyes of a painting move once before: in a copy of the Holy Mary of Czestochowa in our local church. I  entered  the  church  with  difficulty,  struggling  to walk; after the Mass I left it jumping with joy. Since that day I’ve been feeling wonderful. My toes, which used to be numb and curled-in, were further treated by a physiotherapist so I now I can almost use them to play the piano. My body used to feel like a heavy burden; I imagined my feet sinking deep into the ground when I walked. Often I would wake up in the morning feeling like I weighed a ton and wonder-ing if I could lift all that heavy mass (about 60kg) up. Since the 11th August 2016 I’ve been light as a feather. I feel that there is an air bubble between the ground and my feet, that I never really touch the ground. It’s like I’m running on air. Without consulting it with the doctors, I gradually started weaning off the medicines. I reduced the dos-es little by little, to avoid any shock for the body. Be-fore the healing, skipping a single dose would make my legs wobbly within hours: they’d bend and make walking difficult. This time I  managed to wean off all medicines within a month with no adverse effects. Three months after my healing I  decided to medi-cally verify the miracle. I visited two neurologists who had been treating me since the beginning of my ill-ness over 20 years earlier. The general tests confirmed the lack of symptoms associated with MS. I was sent for an MRI scan. For years tests had been showing multiple lesions in my brain, but I was convinced that this time the test would be clean. To my surprise, the results were worse than a year earlier. The scan showed multiple lesions around and within the cerebral cortex on both sides, lesions in the brain stem, the cerebellum, corpus callosum and the spinal cord at the C level; over 2 lesions in total. When  I showed  the  scan  to  the  doctors,  I heard some  wonderful  words.  Dr  Elżbieta  Lach  said  that never before in her career had she seen a case where a patient ill for over 20 years and with similar scan results would be in such great condition. She couldn’t call  it  anything  but  a  miracle.  Dr  Witold  Palasik’s opinion was similar; he added that it is the patient who  should  be  treated  and  not  the  MRI  scan,  and therefore he saw no reasons for the treatment to con-tinue.  Almost  4  years  have  passed  since  then  and I still feel wonderful!I would like to convince people long suffering from illness,  Catholics  as  well  as  non-believers,  that  Je-sus Christ is ready to heal them. If the Lord healed those who turned to Him in faith centuries ago, why wouldn’t He do the same now? Unfortunately, many who are ill nowadays are lacking faith. All they have is blind trust in medicine. Sometimes they travel thou-sands of miles and pay extortionate sums of money just to get to a certain specialist. Why not think of the other Specialist, who is close at hand, by the bed, who can do the same better and faster? Have a closer look at the precious gift Jesus Christ placed in our hands: the gift of faith.