Impossible healings

In the course of my career I owned a heath and fitness club.  It was a full service club with 400 pounds of free weights, a full set of universal equipment, a whirl pool, sauna, tanning beds, aerobic and weight loss classes. Living in a university town with thousands of students I fully expected to be successful. However the Small Business association with whom I counseled on a regular basis insisted the town could not support a fitness club. Enthusiastically I ignored their advice.

The first several months ran relatively well until the students went home for Christmas vacation. There were no new memberships and not enough money to pay the rent. One of my aerobic instructors who was a Christian said “Polly you must be out of God’s will or you would have the rent money you need.” I told her she could be right and together we prayed about the matter. within approximately two hours a man came into the club carrying a briefcase. I knew immediately he must be a salesman and  told him  that I could not afford any new advertising . He ignored my statement and looking me squarely in the eye said ” My name is Grady and I am here with a word from the Lord. ”  Then without pausing he asked if I had any oil. “You see”, he said,” This is a house of healing . People will be healed in your doorways. I want to anoint all the lentils. It so happened that I did have a bottle of oil. 

He then proceeded to walk through the club taking the oil and making the sign of  the cross over each doorway. The men lifting weights asked me if I was running a church or a gym. In the aerobic room he asked if  there were any sick in the class. The embarrassed instructor  immediately  turned up the music as loud  as loud as possible. Then as quickly as he had arrived Grady was out the door and gone. The following day the Bicycle  Club of  Newark  joined and I was able to pay the rent.

Unfortunately it wasn’t long before I found myself  again without enough income to pay the rent. Now my employees all of whom were students at the university and had witnessed the miraculous  appearance of Grady began to chant “Lets call on Grady.  Grady we need you!”  I must confess it was done in jest they never fully expected him to show up.                     

Since my budget was limited I was forced to use as my electrician the young brother of  my hairdresser who having had his right leg crushed in a motorcycle accident was forced to walk dragging his leg in a heavy metal brace. I had called him to do a minor electrical  job and as only God could have orchestrated it no sooner did he arrive than in walked Grady. As a registered nurse I was quite aware that the condition of this young electrician was beyond medical repair.  Yet as I heard Grady call out to him , “Son this is the day of your healing.”  I had that indescrible  feeling one gets when something impossible is about to happen. Grady took the young man into my office for what seemed like an eternity.   Although it could not have been more than 10 to 15 minutes, when they finally came out Grady handed me the metal brace and told me to hang it with the bar bells on the wall as the electrician  would have no more use for it.  I watched in amazement as the electrician picked up his tool box and walked with a normal gait to the area that required his electrical skill.

Three years after this event I was in the office of a young human resources consultant in preparing for a lecture I was to give.  I happened to look up at her bulletin board and commented to her that the man in one of her snapshots looked familiar………..”Oh my gosh ” she exclaimed. “Your Polly!…………..Do you realize that was on this very day three years ago my husbands was completely healed at you gym and he walks perfectly to this day.”