Medical Miracle

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of his leg. At first it seemed that God touched him
in a most wonderful way. Within days the doctors
were speaking of a change that had begun to take
place,” she recalls. Before long he was walking and
dismissed from the hospital.
However, a few months later, Sanford found
him in another hospital ward, back in traction.
“I broke my leg again,” he explained. As she pondered
and privately prayed for the man, she realized:
“There were wounds in John’s mind deeper
than the wounds in his body. I began to suspect
that unless we were able to reach these mindwounds
and heal them, John would forever be
breaking that leg.”
One issue the man had was anger management.
He told Sanford that for reasons unknown
to him, he would fly into uncontrollable rage from
time to time. As she probed, she learned that he
had grown up in Nazi Germany, that his parents
were taken from him and placed into concentration
camps, that he himself was frequently the
target of Hitler Youth. With that information,
Sanford began to pray asking God to heal John’s
memories from his youth. Shortly after she began
praying this way, she heard from John who
explained: “What has happened to me? All of a
sudden I feel entirely different. And somehow