Broken Limbs, Hopeful Healing – Madera Children’s Hospital

The Madera Children’s Hospital sits a top a hill overlooking the Madera Valley in the middle of open space. Driving in to the facility, you are met with an overwhelming feeling that this is a place where broken people can come and be restored. Stories of hope and healing abound from this place.

Black tires, white rims, red wagons with wooden plank gates are the common place in the halls that encircle the hospital wings. Nurses towing sick kids. Parents pulling kids that want a ride. Wheel chairs equipped with IV bags and who knows what else to keep kids hydrated and regulated.

In a place where the sounds of voices echo down the hallways, the sounds of the Agape Singers could be heard resounding through the hallways. Parents to nurses to volunteers to hospital administrators to Catholic Priests stopped by to hear the sweet sounds.

A young family came by to hear the music and it was apparent that both the mother and daughter had been in a car accident.

Another mother came down the hall to head out for a smoke break and heard the choir and said she would be back with her daughter, because it would be good for her and to be encouraged.

As I stood in the back of the room to shoot pictures I saw nurses and volunteers standing & listening to the music. New moms & dads with their precious new cargo would come by as they made their way to the exit to start a new journey of life.

Christ wants to take those broken limbs, those broken hearts, those broken souls, and put some love on them and restore them back to their original beauty. The touch of the Master’s hands can heal not only physical bodies, but wounded and broken souls.

Today, remember the power of Christ’s healing and what He did for us on the cross with His outstretched arms. Please lift up all the doctors, nurses, administrators, parents, patients and family members who need to receive an extra dose of the Savior’s healing.