A Miraculous Story
 A reader named Rita recently called and shared her wonderful story with us. She told how she had prayed for a healing when she became critically ill with a disease no one was able to cure. She had picked up a parasite on a visit to India. She had been ill for three years, and the parasite had begun to devour her organs. Neither medical doctors nor alternative practitioners had been able to deliver a cure. In desperation, she decided to turn to prayer. She remembered how as a child she had learned about novenas to Saint Teresa: “you say a prayer for nine days and if at the end of the nine days you’re going to get what you asked for, Saint Teresa will send you a rose.”
Rita decided to make a novena not only to Saint Teresa but to every saint she had ever admired. She spent hours every day in prayer, flat on her back since she could barely sit up or walk around. At the end of nine days, there was no rose. But her determination – her will – was indefatigable. Instead of being discouraged and accepting she was meant to die, she proceeded right into a second nine-day novena. This woman was not going to take no for an answer.
At the end of this second round of prayer, precisely on the ninth day, she received an anonymous bouquet of hand-picked flowers at her door. There was no rose in the bouquet. On the doorstep next to hers, however, someone had also left a hand-picked bouquet, but that vase did include the desired flower. Why had that rose come so close yet not been given to her? Rita’s conclusion: “Close, but no cigar.” She took the incident as a sign that she was close to manifesting her desire but had to keep working on it.
So she started a third nine-day round of prayer. At the end, she felt just as sick as before, but something strange had happened, she tells us. Somehow she KNEW she was going to get well. She had no idea how a cure would come, as every form of medicine had failed her. But she was so CERTAIN her wish had been granted that the morning of the last day of the novena, she did an unusual thing.
She walked into her garden and picked a large white rose off a rosebush. Rita held it up to the sky, and said, “God, I asked for a rose today if you were going to grant my wish. But I KNOW you are granting it. It seems to me a betrayal of what you’ve already told me to sit around all day waiting for you to send me a rose, because you’ve already made clear in my heart that I will be made well. So I am PICKING this rose, and holding it up to You, to say I understand your answer and that I’m so very thankful.”
One week from the day of this incident, she heard by way of the grapevine about an avant-garde naturopathic practitioner. “No one else had been able to help me, and I had given up going to doctors,” Rita told us, “but I knew the cure was going to come from somewhere, so I thought I had better try this guy, in case that’s how God was going to get my cure to me.”
She was allowed in to see the doctor almost immediately, in spite of a two-month waiting list for all his new patients. When she told the doctor what her diagnosis was, he told her he had personally discovered an unconventional treatment that worked on her rare illness. One week to the day of her visit, the internal bleeding had stopped, and Rita began to recover. It’s now been 21 years, and she tells us she has been healthy and well all that time.
What strikes us most about this beautiful story is the dogged determination that made Rita INSIST on getting well in spite of all signs from the environment that a cure was impossible for her. She held on like a pitbull until she got what she wanted. Failure for her was not an option. She had no “acceptance” of her illness. She was determined to wrestle a cure from heaven, whatever that meant or required.
And when her relentless focus earned her the conviction that she would certainly be healed, she stopped praying and waited in confident expectation for the means to her cure to manifest. She responded to new opportunity then when it presented itself, trusting it was from God. This is what we call having will, intent, determination, and expectation behind our desires. This is the kind of commitment and confidence that does indeed produce remarkable miracles.
A Miraculous Movie
While talking about the miraculous today, we want to tell you about a little-known Hollywood movie, available on DVD, that could have a miraculous effect on your life. The Truman Show stars Jim Carey in his first serious role. He plays a sincere dreamer who never seems to get the things he desires. The demands of life always seem to get in the way.
Everyone tells him he needs to be mature and practical and give up on his dreams, but there is something in Truman (“true man”) that makes that impossible. At a certain point in his life, he starts noticing unexplainable things occurring – odd things that normally he would ignore and dismiss but that somehow he starts to notice. He begins to surmise that there’s more to his life than he has been taught to believe – another layer of reality he’s been missing.
His friends and family call him deluded and paranoid. They even tell him he’s sick. But Truman is on the trail of something, and like a hound fresh on a scent, he doesn’t let go.
His determination to know the truth, whatever it is, and to have what he desires – in spite of the world’s telling him he can have neither – is the force that drives this character to the movie’s wonderful and remarkable conclusion.
The film is full of understated symbolism. Watch for it, as it deepens the meaning and enjoyment of the movie. Notice how Cristof pauses a second after “creator” when he says “I am the creator – of a television show,” and how light shines down from the clouds when he speaks to Truman for the first time.
This movie is giving us a message about the reality of our world, and a different vision of what is really behind it. More importantly, it gives the message that a determined spirit, who won’t take no for an answer, can find out even the most deeply disguised truths and work his way out of even the worst of exploitive, debilitating situations.
It’s all a matter of will, of determined desire. Like the mother who lifts the car that has fallen on her infant, intent can grow so strong that it breaks through all limitations.
You can rent The Truman Show through Netflix or purchase it through Amazon. We guarantee it’s a movie you’ll want to watch again and again.
Next week’s topic: manifesting something that others are opposed to. See you then!
Warmly,
Richie Coutts and Anneli Asplund
Founders of Global Secrets International
www.the-secret-dvd.net
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