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Testimony - I Once Was "BLIND"
This story comes from Brampton Ontario Canada. Lorna is a very dear friend of my wife and I and like a sister to Beverley.
We moved into the area in 1992 and joined the congregation in time to assist in their building program. At this time Lorna had her sight, practiced as an RN and drove a car with the use of glasses. Within a couple of years her eyesight got worse and worse until she had to be led by the hand and (painful for us to experience) she eventually saw only blurred images and shapes and then only darkness.
Lorna was diagnosed with Stargardt's dystrophy, a degenerative eye disease. Her glasses were changed twice per year for thicker lenses, she said they were like Coca Cola bottles (laugh). Eventually her eye sight in one eye got as bad as 20/400 and Lorna was declared legally blind. She had to give up nursing and lost her driving permit. She was then led around by the arm and responded only to voices. It was a painful experience for those of us close to her but her cheerful spirit never faded.
In 1993, Lorna and family attended a health seminar by Bro. Thomas & Sis. Laverne Jackson explaining God's Plan for or Health & Happiness. They listened attentively as God's simple method of healing was introduced and explained. Jackson himself came into this church through our health message, suffering from rheumatoid arthritis and giving up a promising basketball career. Having been completely relieved of this cripling condition he now goes around sharing the good news of God's amazing love for us and His healing program.
Listening to the powerful blessing of water, sunshine, rest, diet, air, temperance, exercise and trust in God. Hearing of the problem of various foods in the diet, such as sugar, dairy, meat, etc. Lorna and her husband decided that very night to make changes. She quietly prayed, "Lord, if this is your plan, I will follow it." She went home that night and herself and family decided to throw out all the sugar and dairy products, etc, into the bin they went.
A couple of months went by with no aparent change, then little by little changes began to occur. She at first ignored the changes but even her family members noticed improvements. Then improvements came quicker and quicker, first outlines, silhouttes, then forms and faces, yes faces.
My shock occurred one evening while attending a school board meeting in North Toronto, I met Lorna at the meeting.
"So who brought you," I asked.
"No one" came the reply. "I got my license back"
Yes !!!! Praise God, Lorna's improvements reached the peak, SHE CAN NOW SEE.
Lorna's doctor refused to acknowledge the improvements in the early stages, even when she could see, saying that the cells in her retina were dead. Lorna simply said to her doctor, "if I am blind, then how come I can see"
Lorna's vision returned from 20/400 to 20/40 in one eye and 20/70 to 20/20 in the other eye. She has since been re-tested by an Opthalmologists in the US to confirm her story. Dr. M.... stated that this type of recovery is very unusual for stargardt's dystrophy and is not witnessed with normal allopathic medical treatment.
Together with a change in lifestyle and diet there has been a lot of prayer for Lorna and her family over the period of her illness. She is a living testimony to God's wonderful goodness to us by relieving suffering through obedience to natural law and through prayer and faith.
It takes a lot of faith to believe that God's simple remedies work.
Today Lorna is driving up to visit with us, a 1.5 hour drive. Praise God.
I hope this gives someone hope and inspiration.
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Maranatha
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