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Be Not Afraid Healinglong as people set themselves up as healers of sickness.The Spirit has nothing in common with magic. It canheal, but not until self-will and all other human claimsto power disappear. Then and only then will the Spiritshow itself as the spirit that heals sickness, drives outdemons, and overcomes death.” It was in this sensethat Edith’s illness was fought and, after a few weeks,finally overcome.Remembering it all after many years, my parents,who had lived in Silum at the time, explained that Edithhad seen her battle in terms of a larger, spiritual one –the battle between light and darkness, life and death.Because of this, she didn’t fight just for her own sake,or for her family’s sake. Obviously she wanted to live,but she also felt that if there was a victory to be won, ithad to mean more than her own survival. It must be aliving testimony to the power that is unleashed whenpeople unite to pray for a common goal.Six decades later, another relative of mineexperienced the same healing power of prayer. It wasa February day in 1996, and one of my nieces, who hadmarried three years before, had just called my wife andme to announce the arrival of her first child. Simon wasa beautiful, healthy, six-pound baby, perfect in everyway – at least at first. But within hours, he developeddifficulty breathing. Oxygen was brought, and anambulance called (the birth had taken place at a rural148