On A Positive Note By E. B. Davis

I talked with my sister by phone on Sunday. She isn’t particularly religious or spiritual so I was surprised when she told me the story of her friend Mark. Here on Hatteras Island, we have weathered dark, cold, and windy days for weeks. Her story about Mark was uplifting, which is the reason I’m sharing it with you. We don’t discuss politics on WWK, but on occasion we refer to religion. Take from it what you will. For Christians, Lent is a time of healing. This is Mark’s story.

 

Mark, in his early 60s, had been diagnosed with kidney failure along with liver problems. He had been hospitalized for most of the summer of 2025. In the fall, they released him to go home, but he had a team that came in to give him daily dialysis and then taught him to do it himself overnight while he “slept.” No, he didn’t get much sleep because he was in constant pain. He was on the recipient list for a new kidney, and possibly, a new liver as well.

 

Last week, my sister drove him to the University of Virginia Medical Center, where he was to undergo more tests and then meet with his medical team, which included nursing associates, social workers, and his primary specialist, a doctor of Indian origin. In the meeting, the doctor asked Mark what his physical complaints were. Mark answered by describing new cramping and other affects from the dialysis. The doctor looked at Mark and asked, “Do you believe in Jesus?” Surprised, Mark replied, “Yes, I talk to him constantly.” Then, the doctor said, “The reason for your new complaints is that you are getting dialysis for kidneys that have been healed. You no longer need dialysis and will be taken off the recipient list for kidneys. Now that your kidney is functioning normally, your liver problems seem to be minor.”

 

Mark is still in shock. We all are. We really thought he was going to die.

 

It was clear that the doctor felt a miracle had occurred or he wouldn’t have asked Mark about his beliefs. I think Mark received a miracle of divine intervention.

 

If you were to write a story about this event including it in your fiction, would you call it supernatural, spiritual, or miracle fiction? Or, would doing so be blasphemous?