Did the earth move for you?
Eleven-year-old Angela was stricken with a debilitating
disease involving her nervous system. She was unable to
walk, and the doctors did not hold out much hope of her
ever recovering. The little girl was undaunted. There, lying
in her hospital bed, she would vow to anyone who’d listen
that she was definitely going to be walking again someday.
She was transferred to a specialized rehabilitation hospital in the San
Francisco Bay area. The therapists were charmed by her undefeatable spirit.
They taught her about imaging about seeing herself walking. If it would do
nothing else, it would at least give her hope and something positive to do in
the long waking hours in her bed. Angela would work as hard as possible in
physical therapy and in exercise sessions. But she worked just as hard lying
there faithfully doing her imaging, visualizing herself moving, moving,
moving!
One day, as she was straining with all her might to imagine her legs moving
again, it seemed as though a miracle happened: The bed moved! It began to
move around the room! She screamed out, "Look what I'm doing! Look!
Look! I can do it! I moved, I moved!”
Of course, at this very moment everyone else in the hospital was screaming,
too, and running for cover. People were screaming, equipment was falling,
and glass was breaking. You see, it was an earthquake. But don't tell that to
Angela. She's convinced that she did it.
And now, only a few years later, she's back in school. On her own two legs.
No crutches, no wheelchair. You see, anyone who can shake the earth
between San Francisco and Oakland can conquer a piddling little disease,
can't they?
- Hanoch McCarty
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