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The Way of Love for the Lord
Chapter 63. The Lord sent three angels to operate on her ruptured kidneys. (March 8, 1983)
On Wednesday which was my third day in the hospital, I was scheduled to get an endoscopy. As the endoscopy examination in that hospital was conducted only on Wednesday, there were many patients waiting, and my turn was the last. As the time for my examination drew nearer, a nurse gave me a liquid medicine, telling me to swallow it. She then gave me another liquid and told me to hold it in my mouth for a while. As ordered by her, I held the liquid medicine in my mouth. At that moment, I had a sudden impulse to go back to my hospital room. I hurried back there and found the woman with renal rupture sitting on her bed in sorrow and discouragement. After swallowing the liquid medicine, I first prayed to the Lord and then said to her, “Ma’am, shall we pray together?” She replied, “Yes, please go ahead.” She urged me to do it. “Ma’am, before saying a prayer, please think about whether or not you have someone whom you didn’t forgive.” She then said, “There is someone whom I didn’t forgive. Even though I want to forgive him, I cannot possibly forgive him.” I said to her, “Yes, that is why we need the Lord’s help. Let us ask the Lord for help.” She answered, “Yes.” I continued, “And if you have ever wounded your neighbors, please ask the Lord for forgiveness and offer up your husband, your birth parents and your parents-in-law in prayer.” Even before I finished speaking, tears were already streaming down from her eyes. I prayed in the Name of the Lord with my hand over her chest that the Lord might remove her ill feelings from her heart. I first thanked the Lord for calling me, an unworthy sinner, to be here so that I might be a friend to her who was in pain. I earnestly prayed to the Lord through the Blessed Mother that she might be healed spiritually and physically. As I was immersed in prayer, I became unaware of how much time had passed. I saw a vision during the prayer: Three angels appeared. They were working very hard with small, beautiful shovels, shedding so much sweat. After a while, they seemed to have finished their work. They rechecked what they had worked on. They nodded and looked at each other with a contented smile. They looked down at what they had done, standing around it in a circle, and made the gestures of tilting their heads to the side with their hands on their waists. Just then, another angel showed up and joined them. All four of them breathed a sigh of relief at the same time. I wondered, “Uh, who is the angel who showed up suddenly and imitated what the other three angels were doing?” At that time, Jesus whispered in my ear, “He is her guardian angel.” I just had that thought in my head, not asking the Lord about it. But the Lord who saw through my heart gave me an answer, which made me so happy. By the time I finished the prayer, she had already been weeping so much. Even her bed sheet and hospital clothes as well as her pillow had been wet with her tears. All of a sudden, she stood up and prayed, “O Lord! Glory to You. You loved me so much that You called this lady to this room in order to awake my sleeping soul. This lady came to this hospital not because she was ill but because You wanted to save me through her. Lord, thank You. Glory to You alone.” While she was praying in a resounding voice, I was so surprised to see the bottle for her urine drainage which was hidden under the sheet. Instead of hematuria, normal urine just like a healthy person’s was coming out of her body. Of course, I firmly believed that the Lord had healed her by having angels operate on her ruptured kidneys. As I came to confirm the healing by seeing her urine bottle with my own eyes, I felt an indescribable joy in my heart. When she saw the bottle too, she burst into tears again and exclaimed in a loud voice, “I will notify the doctors and nurses of this.” I said to her in a surprised tone, “No! Please don’t do that.” She said, “Why? This will manifest Our Lord’s glory. Let us make it known quickly and give testimonies about it.” I persisted in my opinion with a serious face. I was worried about the possibility that she might tell them that she had been healed through my prayer. It was because I had prayed for her not together with other people but by myself. I did not have the slightest wish to be made known. I only wished to live a life like a nameless wildflower. A while later, a nurse came in and lifted up the sheet covering her urine bottle. She was so astonished to see it and cried out, “Oh, my goodness! What on earth has happened?” With my eyes, I signalled her not to tell. Soon the doctors rushed in. They also shouted in surprise, “This is a miracle. Something impossible happened.” They immediately began to check her kidneys. It turned out that both her kidneys had no problem at all. To be accurate, she was completely healed of her ruptured kidneys. Only minutes before, her only hope had been kidney transplantation. But now that she was healed, she wanted to leave the hospital right away. I told her to stay one more day and she said that she would do so. Her uncle was a Protestant minister. She was a Protestant too, but she had not been practicing her faith for a long time. A few days before, she’d had an accident causing both her kidneys to rupture, which made all her family fall into deep sorrow. She pleaded with me to let her know my address but I did not tell it to her, let alone my identity. I concealed it, for I knew well that this miracle had been worked not by me but by the Lord who makes use of me just for a little while as His instrument. Because it was the Lord who called me here to completely heal her, it was my duty to conceal myself so that all the glory would be given to Him alone. As I was running a beauty parlor at that time, it could happen that she would come to my beauty parlor as a customer. That was another reason I did not let her know about myself. If only glory and consolation could be given to the Lord alone, I would be contented with it and my life would be richer. What more could I wish for other than that? Although I did not say a word about the Catholic Church, she promised me that she would convert to Catholicism if her uncle, who had been then very old, passed away. “O my Lord, thank You. O Lord of love! You take pity on the sick and embrace the wounded, not turning away from sinners. Since You have immediately healed the repentant lady, You are truly our Savior. Because of You, my heart is filled with much happiness. What more could I wish for in this world? You alone are my joy, my hope, and my everything. May the Power of You, who are the way, the truth and the life, shine forever! Let the entire world praise You as You alone deserve glory forever and ever from all the people. Even if sufferings weigh heavily on me, my heart going towards You will be full of joy. You are truly my repose and rest. You touch the sick personally. You even have angels operating on them in case of necessity. So You are our eternal Love.” When I sang my unbridled love and overflowing feelings for the Lord, Jesus spoke in a soft and low voice. “My beloved little soul! Your deep love of kindling the fire of love in her hardened heart is the love that has been united with My love. You who have realized the mystery of salvation are always giving all the glory to Me, singing a hymn of praise to God with awe. Therefore, even if you walk through a thorny bush, your feet will not be hurt because I have already put the shoes of My love on you. Rely on Me more. I will be your light and you will be My light too. You will transmit My light to all over the world.” After the woman with renal rupture was healed by the grace of the Lord, I went close to the other woman suffering from severe cough in order to pray for her. During the prayer, she wept a lot and wailed so loudly that those who were in other rooms peeped in to see if someone in our room had died. I felt that she was filled with resentment and bitterness and that her entire heart was covered with many wounds. After the prayer ended, she asked me in her local dialect, “Young lady, how is it that you know me so well? I have never confided my heart to anyone since my birth. How then could you pinpoint what is in my mind? It was so strange.” Just as the frozen water of a brook melted under the warm sun in the spring, all the resentment and bitterness which had been accumulated in the depth of her heart over the past years melted away. She wept over and over, embracing me. Not once did she cough during the prayer. She was also healed of her painful cough, thereby surprising the doctors and nurses. They allowed her to go home, saying in wonder, “This room is truly amazing.” I cried out in my heart. “Lord, thank You. There is nothing impossible with You. You healed our sick souls and bodies with Your love so that we might be born anew in the Holy Spirit. I will offer up my heart, devotion, and time only to You.” The Lord replied, “My little baby! Thank you. Now, go to where you were supposed to go.” I was surprised at the Lord’s words, wondering for a short moment where I should have gone. Then it occurred to me that I was supposed to get an endoscopy. I hurried to the endoscopy room. The nurses working there told me that there had been a fuss over my sudden disappearance and that they had even got me paged several times. But I had not heard it at all. I thought, ‘It was natural that I could not hear me paged. The Lord did not allow me to hear it, for He wanted to accomplish His plan through me, an unworthy instrument. They told me that they had searched everywhere for me for about an hour. But during their search, they skipped my room where I had been. How could this have happened if the Lord had not stopped them from finding me? They could have used the extension phone connected to my room.’ When I came back to my room after getting the endoscopy, I found that the woman who had been healed from her cough was waiting for me after finishing her discharge procedure. She said to me, “Until now I have lived a life of not knowing God at all. Now, I came to know Him a little. Thank you so much. I will never forget this. Anyway, my heart aches for you because you healed others but you still remain ill yourself. I wish that you get well soon to go back home.” She was worried about me. I replied to her, “Ma’am, there is nothing that I did myself. I was just used for a short time as a worker of God, so please give your gratitude only to God. I only did what I was supposed to do as His instrument. I wish that you go home with an easy mind and lead a joyful life.” After warmly bidding farewell to each other, we parted. Two days later, the woman who had been healed of her renal rupture and I were both discharged from the hospital. At home, I deeply pondered about all this. Then I came to the realization that not only I myself but also the money earned by the sweat of my brow belonged to the Lord, for though I stayed in the hospital with my money, the Lord took charge of everything and used my money according to His will. I made a firm resolution to offer up all of myself to the Lord and to give praise, thanks and glory to Him.
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