A New Heart

I borrowed this from an email from a dear friend, Bro. Robert Leonard, the MBSF Director at UAM. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. GOD IS GOOD!

Cameron Fowler is 4 months and 3 days old today. He has a new heart. The story is rather miraculous.

The jet landed at LR airport last night just before 10pm. The donor team transferred the heart to the helicopter from Children's hospital. The copter flew the organ the last few miles over to Children's.

Shortly after 10pm, the doctors and nurses of Children's hospital began working on Cameron. It's amazing that such a small organ could be placed in such a little body so quickly and skillfully. The physicians placed the heart in Cameron's chest and prepared to administer a small electrical shock to get in started. That's when the miracle happened.

It may not be a miracle that an organ can be harvested from one body and placed in another. It's standard medical procedure that you can drop the temperature of an organ and preserve it for a period of time. Skill and training provide doctors with the knowledge to be able to perform such delicate procedures. But what happened to Cameron had nothing to do with any of that.

When they placed the heart inside his chest and sutured the arteries together and started the blood flow to his new heart something wonderful happened. The heart began to beat on its own.

"Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me." Psalm 51.10

"O God, We've studied and we've trained. We've gone to countless conferences and worship times. We've been faithful, Lord, but all these things mean nothing unless you speak life into our hearts. Restore our hearts and renew our spirits that they might beat, on their own, for You. We love you, LORD. Amen"