National Guardsman Staff Sergeant Andrew Wolfe is clinging to life in an ICU in Washington, D.C., the victim of a gunshot wound to the head. Wolfe was shot while on duty a week ago, the day before Thanksgiving.
Details are scarce, but according to reports from his family, he responded to stimuli. He underwent surgery after last Wednesday’s attack and was reported to be in critical condition, meaning his vital signs were unstable, but on Monday Governor Patrick Morrissey of West Virginia, where Wolfe’s unit is based, and Wolfe’s mother said he was doing better. The governor also said he is now in serious condition, meaning his vital signs are stable, and that he gave a nurse a thumbs up and wiggled his toes.
On Tuesday, President Trump said Wolfe’s mother urged him that her son will survive last week’s horrific shooting.
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This is starting to look more and more like a medical miracle in the making.
Prayers for Wolfe are pouring in from all over the world, including the soldier’s prayer based on Psalm 91, which asks God for courage and protection.
There is a widely accepted belief that combined prayer, known as community intercession, has a cumulative power to help us heal.
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I believe this to be true. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise told me in a recent interview for my book, “The Miracles Among Us: How God’s Grace Plays a Role in Healing,” that the prayers that poured in from across the country after his gunshot wound during a 2017 workout for the next day’s scheduled Congressional Baseball Game, combined with excellent doctor work (especially by a plastic surgeon and an interventional radiologist), put him on the road to recovery.
Dr. Marc Siegel and his new book, “The Miracles Among Us.” (FNC)
Several years ago, Pope John Paul II told Dr. Robert Redfield, who served as CDC director at the height of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, that prayer is our most powerful tool. In a prayer he sent me for my new book, Cardinal Timothy Dolan wrote that we are closest to God when we are sick or suffering. I believe this is also true.
Last weekend I was sitting in a pizzeria with my son just before closing time when a man with burns on his face walked in and insisted on paying for our food.
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I was surprised at his offer until he explained what was behind his generous gesture. He said he smelled smoke and narrowly escaped a house fire with his girlfriend a few years ago. Others in the house did not survive. He told us that he now repays the generosity of God’s miracle of his survival by giving to others whenever he can. This concept of paying back by giving to others really appeals to me as a doctor.
Healing is a combination of the physical and the spiritual. Seventy-five percent of physicians surveyed believe that medical miracles do happen. Doctors who participate in medical miracles are not always believers at first, but many become believers when they experience a miracle firsthand.
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In the vision, Smith’s father told him a story that few knew and that Smith himself had no knowledge of. It was later verified as true.
Smith emerged from his coma after two months and was immediately able to think and speak clearly. He later regained strength in his left side through stem cell treatments. Meanwhile, the gunman’s bullet lodged in the right side of his brain.
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Like many of the subjects in my book, Smith has inspired others with his survival story.
As he recently told me in an interview, “I’m here to inspire, to motivate, to help, to teach, to restore hope in people and to restore faith in God and in people and in Christianity all over the world. That’s why I’m here.”
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One can only hope and pray for a similarly miraculous outcome for Sergeant Wolfe. May the Lord hear our prayers and not take this brave soldier away from us too quickly.
May Sergeant Wolfe return to good health so he can continue to protect us and spread the word of God.
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