"BUBBLE FROM HEAVEN".
(ANGELS' STORY)

Two years before our daughter's birth I was on fire for God. During a devoted prayer time the good Lord softly revealed that our next child would be a daughter born with a handicap, but it all would have a Godly purpose.

I wept that night as I prayed but didn't go into a lot of questions about why. The time came and my wife was pregnant. I had never forgotten what was told to me but naturally I hoped it wouldn't be so, but the Holy Spirit kept nudging me to have my wife checked early.

Just under three months into her pregnancy I insisted she get an ultrasound. I had not shared with my wife anything about what the Lord had said. I wanted her to be as happy in her early pregnancy stage as possible. I kept that burden between myself and the Lord.

We went for the ultrasound and we were told, "All seems well"! but for the longest time they could not tell us if we had a boy or a girl because of the position the embryo was in. Yet I was relieved, so relieved, thinking that perhaps what I had heard was not from the Lord.

They finally were able to tell and when they told us we were expecting a baby girl my heart froze, and then it seemed to burn. As much as I wanted everything to be grand, I kept sensing something was wrong.

After the tests were completed they were sent to a doctor for further observation. While waiting for his report I shared with my wife this knowledge to prepare her just in case. She was concerned, but we were just told that all appeared well, and she was in a positive attitude.

We were discussing what we might have for lunch when we were called back and asked to sit down. The grave look on the face of the nurse told us something was wrong, especially when she wouldn't answer any questions and mentioned she would have the doctor speak with us.

A dark spot had been discovered on the baby's spine. Our baby girl was a Spinal Bifida child. After the negative reports of her ultrasound, we were counseled to abort the child. We were very firm against it and in no way did we even consider it.

I kept reminding my wife it was all for Godly reasons, but the more the reality sat in, I was the one that needed encouragement. I had to walk the halls just to take the edge off of the shock.

As soon as we arrived to her mother's home I excused myself for a walk. My wife wanted me close to her as she broke the news to mom, but I couldn't stand still enough and had to leave.

My knees began to shake and my eyes watered until a car honked because I had wondered into the middle of the road. "That's about how my life has been Lord. In the middle of the road"! I cried out.

My life had taken a worldly turn. I was leaning towards the old way of the alcoholic addition I had known since a teen. I had become dependant again on the bottle. About the only time I really prayed was when the drunken spins would overtake me. How I had fallen far in two short years.

I wept while walking the streets in sincere prayer for my unborn child; for my distressed wife; for our parents when the news was heard. I had dark sunglasses on so no one in the neighborhood would think I was a long bearded crazed unstable man, which in truth is what I was.

The Spirit of God moved me to stop walking and to LOOK down look at my feet. I took the glasses off and just where I had last stepped was a shiny new bumper sticker of two winged angels blowing horns. On the sticker it read, "Guarded by Angels." I got a rush down my spine as I was then instructed to name my daughter "Angels". We had already decided on the name, Deloresmarie, named after both her grandmothers, if in fact a daughter was born to us.

I continued to walk in prayer, losing all track of time. It was so good to be back in fellowship with the Lord.

I was instructed to roll a large white stone into the ditch with my walking stave. When the stone settled, there laid a little plastic blue box with gleaming rays of gold shooting out of it's case. I was puzzled and retrieved the box that the stone uncovered.

Inside was a 10 k gold lapel pin with our daughter's initial and birth stone! As I was marveling at this occurrence, the Lord revealed that Deloresmarie Angels "IS" healed. I had wondered far down the road and at that moment I took note of the time, thinking how I had left my wife alone to break the news to her mother.

At that exact moment my wife Carmen later said her stomach felt really strange. She was laying down at the time and raised up wondering what was happening inside her. It was a feeling she could not explain, but she herself was convinced that something had taken place that was of the Lord, before I shared with her what the Lord had said to me.

We were both excited and kept telling her parents that God had covered the exposed spine, somehow, and our high hopes were very real. Her dad, an atheist at the time, thought we were using our "religions" faith as a crutch. He was so set to believe the worse. We, the best!

At the next appointment at Children's Hospital in Little Rock, the Doctors were marveling over a mysterious bubble of a skin like substance that had appeared after my prayer, in those two days between appointments.

The balloon like bubble appeared as fleshly skin but it was never completely 100% identified as to it's real true substance. They were only sure of this one thing. They had no name for it!-and no sure way of knowing where exactly it came from!

After the birth of our baby, one doctor said it appeared as bony like particles meshed in flesh with the stretch ability, feel and elasticity of latex....yet it was perfectly adapted to her blood type and immune system! It never caused any problems, and in fact covered her vital nerves from major permanent damage due to exposure to the embryo fluid. The doctors were lost for further words. We know where it came from. The bubble from heaven had covered a hole the size of a grapefruit!

In my prayerful walk that day I had asked the Lord to "cover" the hole. I could not believe that the Spinal Bifida defect would just go away completely. I knew there was a divine purpose in the plan of God through out it all.

However, I was able to believe that God would cover that large hole near the L5 of her spine.

We have ourselves a real miracle baby girl here. But then again, aren't they all? God loves all the little children of the world! He sees each of us as his precious little child. May we never think ourselves above the simple faith of children.

Many surgeries were done to help correct problems, but we know Jesus is her healer and our Heavenly Father covered her with the shadow of his wings; not made of feathers, but of a bubble of heavenly flesh! He also straightened her legs out in a creative miracle at age two, and she soon began to walk soon after.

~ Praise his Holy name!

Angels recently turned eight years old, Aug. 2002. Today she still carries a shunt, and has an argumentative bladder and must be catherized every three hours, but otherwise is in good health. She is very active and highly intelligent beyond her years. The Holy Spirit in her has inspired an illustrated children's book intitled, "BUMBLE BEE MAN"; my book completion of DEAD OR ALIVE IN THE LAST TEENAGE YEAR; and of course this story; "BUBBLE FROM HEAVEN".

Her birth and the covering of that Spinal Bifida hole has helped to seal a wavering hole in my soul from alcohol addiction and the Lord has taught me much through her, in way of true trust and faithfulness.

She is simply an angel! She has prayed for others in our living room and is very bold for her age. One man was even delivered from a crack cocaine addiction after one of her faithful prayers, when she said, "Devil you must leave NOW in Jesus name and don't come back no more"!! He wept in a chair for two hours, arrested by the Holy Ghost until he was totally clear of the drug addiction.

I felt the bumper sticker and the gold lapel pin were a few precious reminders for us as Angels grows older. Reminders that may we never take for granted God's hand that divinely stretches out to us all. Although we have his Spirit to guide us in His word, and to keep us for His sake with out need for signs or wonders, it is so thoughtful of Him to have given us that sticker and pin at that time.

The one who was delivered from the cravings of drug addiction is now an active soul winner for the Lord and dearly loves Jesus. He really believes that if for no other reason...our little Angels was born just for him. Carmen's Dad, once an atheist, is now born again and loves the Lord! He has done so many wondrous things for us and others!

But I know the real Godly purpose my baby girl was born under such conditions. She was born for me!

Chaplain Scott

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