“Like a son comforted by his mother will I comfort you” (Isaiah 66:13).
A medical doctor tells this moving story of a wonderful Christian mother and her five-year-old son who was in the hospital dying of a painful cancer:
One morning, before the mother arrived at the hospital, a nurse heard the little boy saying, “I hear the bells! I hear the bells! They’re ringing!” Over and over that morning nurses and staff heard him.
When the mother arrived, she asked one of the nurses how her son was doing, and the nurse replied, “Oh, he’s hallucinating today. It’s probably the medication. He’s not making sense. He keeps on saying he hears bells.”
Then that beautiful mother ’s face came alive with understanding, and she shook her finger at the nurse and said, “You listen to me. He is not hallucinating and he’s not out of his head because of any medicine. I told him weeks ago that when the pain in his chest got…
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