Elder Richards from the Seventy was visiting at our Stake Conference today and it was a wonderful morning! In his talk he shared a story that happened to him a couple years ago. He was a trauma surgeon before he was called to the Seventy last April. He related where he was called in to the hospital as an ambulance was bringing in a young man who was stabbed in the heart. There is a sack around the heart called the pericardium. The paricarium protects the heart from friction. When the heart bleeds, it does so into this sack. When the sack fills up with blood, there is no longer room for the heart to beat, and it simply stops beating. This young man had this happen, and flat lined in the ambulance before he reached the hospital. However, they continued to do resusitation and life saving measures as directed by procedure. Elder Richards said the moment they got to the hospital he cut the boys chest open, cut through the pericardium, and stuck his finger in the boys heart. Within moments, the boys heart started beating again and he woke up and looked at Elder Richards. Elder Richards smiled and they took him up for surgery.
I thought of two things with this story. One, how amazing it is that God has given men the knowledge of things to be able to heal others in such a way. It really is amazing that doctors can do what they do today to help others to live. Not only to live, but to live a normal life. Jacob, the girls little brother, will be having a final surgery for the hypospadia this week. Edgar was telling me what the doctor was going to do, and how he was going to do it and I was amazed at the idea, let alone the ability to complete the procedure. I am grateful to live in a time where this kind of knowledge is available to us.
The second thing I thought of was how God has the ability, if we let him, to put his finger in our heart and heal it. Regardless of who we are, and where we are in our lives, God can help us to heal and to feel whole again. Amazing is my word of the day, it seems, but I cannot think of any other way to describe the love our Heavenly Father has for us and the willingness he has to care for us, individually.
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