Annabel, actress Jennifer Garner and Annabel's mother.
THE MOTHER LOOKS BETTER THAN THE MOVIE ACTRESS.
Posted on 03/21/2016 1:54:55 PM PDT by Kartographer
She recalls: 'Suddenly Abbi came in, quite hysterical and said that Anna had fallen in the tree. I thought she'd just climbed a little too high and because she was so sick she'd slipped and got stuck.'
Abigail physically grabbed her mother and dragged her the several hundred yards from their house to the grove of trees where the accident had happened.
Christy says: 'When I got there, Adelynn, who was 7 at the time, was at the base of the tree digging in the mud with a little bit of metal.
'I said, "What are you doing? Where's Annabel?" She said, "Mommy she can't breathe. I'm digging her out".'
'I'm looking around and I can't see her and the girls said, in unison, "She's IN the tree." And they pointed to the base of this monstrous tree and Abbi pulled me to the other side and pointed to a hole and said, "She went in that hole and she's in the bottom of the tree".'
'And it was like, everything just stopped.'
Christy phoned her husband who works nearby. He was home, she said, in record speed.
He stands six foot tall and had to pull himself up from the top rung of a 24 foot ladder to peer down inside the hollowed out cottonwood into which Annabel had fallen.
He had a piece of rope that he intended to use to pull her out.
Christy recalls: 'He shone a flash light in and it just shined down and down and down and down and there's Anna, crumpled in the fetal position at the bottom and he just dropped the rope. He said very eerily, "Call 911".'
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As the evil in the world is permitted to fester, don’t be surprised at glorifying miracles. Keep feeding your hope, and as mom wrote, keep your head up and look for how God is working now and sing His praises. He’s got the whole world in His hands.
Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receiver power and riches and wisdom and might and glory and honor and blessing!
Wonderful movie - bring your Kleenex.
I must admit, I got a bit chocked up reading this.
Thanks for posting this wonderful and true story. God is good.
Annabel, actress Jennifer Garner and Annabel's mother.
THE MOTHER LOOKS BETTER THAN THE MOVIE ACTRESS.
Who would think God would use a TREE and accident to heal a little girl? His ways are not our ways.
This reminds me of a story told to me by my father's cousin who was a Christian believer in my nice but my line generally unbelieving. I don't remember who the person was, but he had broken a leg. The details of any treatment escape me, but the leg caused chronic pain, making it difficult to work on the farm.
One day he was climbing a ladder, and he somehow fell or twisted the leg. It was healed, and the pain was gone for good. I'll have to try to find out who it was.
When my father's cousin (the person who had told me about the man with the bad leg) passed away in 2001, his son shared the following with me. There were two grandchildren, a grandson and granddaughter. The granddaughter was brilliant and was away in a very distant state. She and her grandfather had been very close.
He appeared to her in that distant state and said, "I've got to go now." Not too long after she received the call that he had passed away. She said she knew and told what had happened, how her grandfather had appeared to her.
The movie is wonderful. Go see it, you will not regret it.
Just beautiful.
Sometimes I have felt that God is saving his best for last.
The first three comments on daily mail, not FR, are so sad, faithless. Glad I am weak, feeble minded, on the opiate of faith in God.
Very nice story
It’s a good article and a wonderful true story. But the lesson for the mom was that she shouldn’t have been down when things were bleak?? I don’t get that. How easy is that to say when her daughter who wanted to die, who was sick and in pain for 4 years, gets healed miraculously and has a normal life, something they dared not even dream of?
I think it’s almost selfish and cruel, not by intent, but out of ignorance. So many people suffer and then lose their child, or things don’t get ended in a miracle. Really, you should be looking up and full of hope when things are bad?? Like ignoring the pain?? Pain and sick children ARE agony. Miracles are great BECAUSE they spare or save someone from it. It is ok to feel bad, to be defeated, worst happens. The worst, in this life, is to lose a child. To spend years fearing or even waiting for that horrible moment (when your child is terminal)... It’s ok to feel as bad as you feel.
So happy for them, though.
I believe that the Lord wants to heal us. Sometimes it is
more likely that He has so much more for us than this
Vale of Tears. - When human beings are healed from a
disease, they still in future will have to die physically
& face the Valley of the Shadow of Death. Death is the
final enemy that Christ will put down for good.
The cure for the girl’s condition lies with that tree. You could say God led her to it and I wonder if there is something about Cottonwood that killed whatever was causing the little girl’s disorder.
I saw the trailer for this movie in the theater. I think I caught where the doctor said she hit her head just right and that is what cured her.
Possibly. The human body is a precision instrument. My dad used to say doctors operating on people is like taking a hammer to a Swiss watch.
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