Welcome to Scottish Catholic Charasmatic Renewal

Dixy-Ann Morrison - An Amazing Healing

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Four years ago my son called me from boarding school. He wanted me to watch him play in his first official North of Scotland Rugby Union match. He had just been selected to be their hooker. He was seventeen. Nine minutes into the game the match was stopped. The players all seemed to run away off the pitch on the sidelines in little huddles. There was a player lying alone on the pitch motionless. I looked in vain for my son Largue and asked one of his team who stood near me, "Where is Largue?" He said, "That is Largue on the pitch. He is hurt". The referee just seemed to stand there looking at him. Several doctors who were watching the match ran towards him. They seemed to speak with him but then walked away almost instantly and grouped near by speaking quietly and looking away from him. I ran to him and kneeled down beside him in the mud. I touched his head but he screamed in pain, "Don't touch - my neck hurts! Mummy I want to walk again, I want to be able to drive." I asked the doctors what was wrong with him but they just smiled and did not answer me. Largue said, "Mummy please put my legs down." He was lying flat on he ground but his nervous system was telling him that his legs were standing up.

He was an A Level Biology student and he knew immediately that his neck was broken. He said to me later that he heard his neck break like chicken bones between his teeth.

I had a strange feeling before the accident. I felt strangely agitated and for some reason asked his father who died when he was just 3 years old to watch out for him and to pray to Jesus for him.

As I kneeled beside Largue in the mud I laid my hands all over his body and prayed that Jesus would heal and restore his spine and repair any damage to his neck and his body and that He would allow Largue to walk and drive again very soon. No one came near us but one senior teacher whom I knew as a Christian. He kneeled beside me and joined me in prayer.

Several hours later, after watching medical staff panic and hurrying between asking me questions and going into the operating room, the surgeon told me that Largue almost died. He asked me who helped Largue on the pitch. He said someone must have helped him because he could not find a medical explanation as to why the damaged bones in his neck seemed to be turning and twisting back to the correct position by themselves. He said they kept taking more and more x-rays and every one was different from the last. He could not understand it. Because of the muscle and tissue damage around the badly damaged vertebrae he was surprised that the injury was healing so quickly. The surgeon, a Christian himself, asked me if I had been praying for Largue. He said your prayers were answered. Largue did take some bad turns and the staff on duty panicked several times, but they repaired his spine with bone, steel and wire. He had to learn to walk all over again. It took great courage and determination on his part. Several months later he returned home from hospital, walking but very cautious. There is permanent nervous system damage and some deformity and weakness of muscle on the right side of his body, and some discomfort, pain and sporadic spasms in his right arm, but I thank Jesus for answering my prayer and for the angels that listened, watched out for him and prayed to Jesus to prevent a worse injury. I do not know why his neck was broken but I know that Jesus used this injury for Largue's own good. During his time in hospital he grew very close to me. He still phones me several times a week even though he now lives in Manchester, away from the family home in Aberdeen. He is not born again; he listens politely when I speak of Jesus and when I try to teach him how to pray. I pray for him constantly to truly get to know Jesus. He does not go to church. I know that I will be truly blessed and glad the day that Largue and Mark-Anthony his brother (very much moved and affected by Largue's injury, he also never played rugby again) call me to say "Mummy, I have found Jesus, I believe in Him, He gave his heart to me and I have given my heart and life to Him forever." Please pray for both my sons to this end. I love them both very much and this is my hope for them.

God Bless you always