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Be Not Afraid Healingof Silum and led them in prayer on her behalf. He alsolaid his hands on her and asked God to heal her, if thatwas his will.Edith slowly recovered, and at one point her doctoreven pronounced her out of danger. Shortly after this,however, her fever returned and she lost ground again.One day she would feel better; the next, she would becritically ill.It was around this time that my grandfather noticedsomething he hadn’t before: that Edith’s spirits seemedto fluctuate with her health, and that both went up ordown according to the state of the close-knit grouparound her. When they were depressed or pessimisticor petty, she weakened tangibly; if they rallied aroundher with joy and resolve, she regained strength. Itwas as if her body had become a barometer for theatmosphere of the group.Shaken by this mysterious phenomenon, the peopleat Silum prayed more persistently than ever. But theirfocus was not Edith’s physical health. Rather, theysought to have their eyes opened in such a way that theycould understand the spiritual nature of her struggle,and identify and remove every potential obstacle tovictory, including their own personal agendas andopinions – and thus make way for God to heal themall, in body and soul. As my grandfather explained atthe time, “There can be no victory of the Holy Spirit as14