Already you ask? I cried because I heard the most miraculous story I’ve heard in a long time. I’m in orientation and a woman came to talk to us about the organ donation system. I sat back and prepared to listen to the usual presentation of statistics and pros and cons and how to go about accessing the system, but then she threw in her personal testimony. She had slides and one of them was a photo of her 2 year old daughter. It was 1983. Her daughter was born with a rare metabolic disorder that was causing her liver to fail. It took doctors 2 years just to diagnose the problem. The only transplanting being done prevalently at that time was kidneys. She then heard about a surgeon who had attempted liver transplants 12 years earlier, but the patients mostly died so his program was shut down. She had read about him in the Miami Herald and the article said the FDA had just approved him to try again after 12 years. They put his contact information in the article and she called them only to find out that she had to come up with 100,000 dollars to put her baby on the transplant list and another 250,000 dollars to have the transplant done. UP FRONT! She was just 27 years old at the time and had no money so she went to every single government agency she could think of to ask for help. She was turned down by them all. Her daughter’s father was a cruise ship captain from Norway so the baby had dual citizenship and she went to Norway to ask for help from them because they have socialized medicine. She was turned down again. So she wrote a heart felt plea to King Olaf asking if he would be willing to pay for the baby’s surgery. Several weeks later, she received a reply. King Olaf AGREED to pay for the surgery! She quickly had the baby put on the transplant list and lost hope because there were already 50 children on the list. Liver donation for babies at that time had to come from children smaller than the recipient, so the baby would have to be less than a year old and be brain dead and have parents willing to donate . Two months went by and 47 of the children died waiting. Her daughter was finally put on the last watch. She slipped into a hepatic coma. The doctors said she had less than 24 hours to live. And THEN! They got the call! A liver had been found! As she switched to the next slide of her daughter, today 27 years old, getting ready for medical school, healthy, hardly even taking any medication, I burst into tears! Our God is an AWESOME GOD!!! He REIGNS! Can’t you see him? Can’t you hear him? Can’t you feel him?