THE FINAL CHAPTER : A SPIRITUAL JOURNEY (Sept 2009 to Jan 2010)
At the Grotto of Our Immaculate Conception, in Lourdes
Daniel (14+ years old) (Saturday 26/9/2009)
Day 17 in Lourdes
NOVENA DAY 9
At the time of uttering that assurance, Mom was betting with her life that all those multiple lesions that the neuro-specialist at Pao Hospital had advised from a brain scan taken at Lourdes hospital, had been miraculously frozen and could no longer hurt You.
The shadows might remain on the scan, and that was what the doctors had seen, but the body would soon clear them out of the system, she had managed to convince herself.
Aunt Laura had shared an encouraging thought with Mom after the doctor's frightening announcement at Pao, "that God would have shut the mouths of those lesions. Have faith."
Just like the biblical story of Daniel who was thrown into a den that was filled with hungry lions. God had sealed the mouths of the lions so that Daniel would not be harmed. Mom found herself clinging on to God's promise with every fiber in her being that your lions too had been tamed by the good Lord.
How else could she carry on if there were no hope?
She would do all she could to the best of her ability to keep the slightest spark of whatever hope there was, alive and burning.
For her son, there must continue to be hope.
