Anatomy of a Miracle by Jonathan Miles

Author:Jonathan Miles
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Crown/Archetype
Published: 2018-03-13T04:00:00+00:00

Dorothy Alice Bearden Dear friends, I just heard that Biloxi H.S. graduate Cameron Harris has been very seriously injured while serving our nation over in Afghanistan. He needs our prayers!!!!! Please join me in praying to the Archbishop Nicholas Fahey for his full recovery and return home! Relying upon his merits and power before the Sacred Heart of Jesus we pray. Yours in Christ, Dot.

March 26, 2010 at 8:32 pm • 151

That she’d issued this prayer on social media was a novelty to Euclide, but one he welcomed. Normally he relies on requesters’ recollections of praying—when, how, and to whom—and must ultimately gauge that what they say they did, while kneeling silently in a pew, or alone in their bedrooms, is what in fact they did. But here was the ne plus ultra of forensic evidence: a documented, time-stamped prayer, as perfectly preserved on the internet as a DNA sample sealed in a jar.

Below Bearden’s post were thirteen replies, three of them expressing shock and dismay but ten indicating that a prayer chain did go into effect that spring. In subsequent questioning, Bearden told Euclide her Friday morning prayer group at St. Michael had maintained their prayers for Cameron’s recovery until someone heard he was back in Biloxi, and, sadly, unable to walk ever again.

Gently, Euclide pressed her:

Q: But you didn’t pray after that? After you knew he’d been paralyzed?

A: Oh, we knew he’d got paralyzed early on. Megan [her granddaughter] heard it from his sister. Once we all heard he was home and was safe, well, I reckon he fell off our prayer list. But I kept praying for him.

Q: You did?

A: Yessir I did.

Q: By yourself?

A: That’s right.

Q: Did you ever pray a novena?

A: Sometimes. But mostly it was just like talking.

Q: You and Reverend Fahey?

A: That’s right. Just talking, me and him. I’d tell him who was hurting, who could use his grace.

Q: And you’d mention Cameron Harris?

A: Lots of times, yessir I would. That boy had a hard row, losing his mama the way he did, then him getting blowed up in Afghanistan. You pray for those in need.

Q: But you also prayed for others in need?

A: Everyone in need. Everyone I thought needed grace.

Q: Was Cameron Harris special?

A: I reckon he needed more grace than just about anybody else.

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