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Be Not Afraid Healingclinic). On the way to the hospital, the baby turnedblue.Once there, X-rays soon confirmed what the doctorsfeared: both of Simon’s lungs were badly infected. If hesurvived, they predicted, he would most likely sustainhearing loss and visual impairment, if not braindamage as well.Struggling to shut out the doctors’ words, andfearing that this was the beginning of the end, Simon’sparents were numb with discouragement and grief. Butnot for long. Why not, they thought, turn to God andask him to heal Simon? Why accept defeat?After all,God knew things Simon’s doctors didn’t. And Simonhimself wasn’t giving up. Beneath the maze of wires,needles, tubes, and lights, beneath the hum of themechanical ventilator breathing for him, he was stillkicking – fighting for life.Simon’s parents prayed, but his conditiondeteriorated. By evening he was bleeding from hislungs and needed a transfusion. Later the same nighthis blood pressure dropped. Dopamine, a powerfuldrug, was started, but still his life hung in the balance.Ten miles away, however, another force was beingenlisted: the prayers of dozens of members of ourchurch. It happened spontaneously, but quickly: asone person after another found out about Simon,plans were made to gather and intercede on his behalf.14