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| John of God |
So, my mother and I love Oprah. All of you may think whatever it is you would like about her, but I find her truly inspirational and a wonderful, wonderful person. There are not many with a heart like hers. Her last season has been particularly good, as all of us avid watchers knew it would be. I have been following all these episodes very closely. Today's espisode was about a simple farmer living in Brazil. People around the world these days have been known to call him "John of God" and Oprah was quite clear it was not a name he gave himself, rather a name people who have seen him gave him. Now, let me be quite clear. Yes, I believe in Jesus Christ. I believe he died on the cross to save me from my sin. And I am quite skeptical to "healing doctors" or "witch doctors" or whathaveyou. But this guy... Wow. First of all, it did help that Oprah pointed out that he himself had said that he works through the power of God. And from all the raw and seemingly true footage that they put on this show, I can scarcely imagine how someone could not be rattled by it. I believe it is the work of God.
(Let me just interject for a second to give you a link to a clip of the show ... http://www.oprah.com/oprahshow/Face-to-Face-with-John-of-God-Video_1 )
She interviewed a non religious woman who also happened to be a journalist, and the editor and chief of the O magazine. She also interviewed a man who was a medical doctor, and a chief of pyschiatry. What really got me was Dr. Jeff Rediger. If a obviously intelligent and respectable man like that, who believes wholly in science and logic, can have his life turned upside down, then this episode could potentially change millions of views around the world. What a revelation! I cannot believe how powerful it was to hear these two skeptics, or atleast one skeptic and one indifferent, both leave that place and openly admit that it was unexplainable. And, the fact that they so profoundly described that love and faith can change lives. THAT IS KEY, PEOPLE. That is Jesus. God is love (in my clearly unbiased opinion... *ahem* Just kidding. It's a little biased. I can admit that). But it is what we Christians believe. John of God performs healing miracles, both physical and mental. In the episode we see footage as I said before of John of God's very unorthadox ways of surgery, and yet the results are there. My mother had a hard time not squirming because the footage shown was very graphic, but I think that only proves how much more real it could be.
I am so impacted by this, and I can't believe that I've never heard of John of God before. People travel thousands and thousands of miles to see John of God. I would love to go there someday just to experience him and his work as a whole; to really see what is up. I think the Oprah show did a very good job of expressing both believer and skeptic points of view, even interviewing a woman who went to John of God and was not healed. They kept it very unbiased, and I was extremely impressed by that.
I am going to keep this blog short and simple and leave it up to everyone to judge it for themselves. It's not something that I can put a lot of words into, because it really is something the individual either has to watch or experience first hand. I just couldn't not say something about it.
This link is for more information on the doctor Oprah interviewed...
http://www.drrediger.com/
And this link are first hand accounts of believers and skeptics
http://www.oprah.com/spirit/Do-You-Believe-in-Miracles_1
I just want to end with this quote. On the Oprah site it said, "In the terms of his own experience with John of God, Dr. Rediger says it's been life changing."
"Perhaps the real heart within us is not just a pump. Perhaps the real heart within us is about love and faith. Perhaps the physical body is not who we really are. Perhaps we are these invisible souls walking around, and the body is just an instrument or metaphor for something we are trying to learn."
Now, tell me that's not interesting.
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