The Healing

December 1971

As Christmas was approaching, I began dating a young lady from church (we only dated a couple of weeks). While we were dating we went with a church group to sing Christmas carols at a local Convelescent Home.

While we were singing a carol to a few older ladies, I had a feeling inside of me... like what it must be like from one of the old lady's view, listening to the singing but unable to hear very well. I felt deep sorrow for my imagined person and inwardly prayed for hearing healing. We finished the song and a lady in the group with tears in her eyes told us, "While you were singing God healed my hearing. I am so happy, now my son will take me back home."

I didn't tell anybody what I experienced, but I somehow knew that the lady would not go home even if she could hear. She was old.

2018 UPDATE

I also remember that while we sang, the burden I felt was for someone to be able to hear long enough for us to sing. I didn't know it then, but temporary healing was and is common in Christian circles, but poorly understood and wrongly explained.