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Roy Delfines's story was only one of many; I grew up in a tradition of miracles and healings。 I grew up believing in gris…gris; as well (only; up in the hills we said it to rhyme with kiss…kiss): stump…water for warts; moss under your pillow to ease the heartache of lost love; and; of course; what we used to call haints … but I did not believe John Coffey was a gris…gris man。 I had looked into his eyes。 More important;' I had felt his touch。 Being touched by him was like being touched by some strange and wonderful doctor。
I helped it; didn't I?
That kept chiming in my head; like a snatch of song you can't get rid of; or words you'd speak to set a spell。
I helped it; didn't I?
Except he hadn't。 God had。 John Coffey's use of 〃I〃 could be chalked up to ignorance rather than pride; but I knew … believed; at least … what I had learned about healing in those churches of Praise Jesus; The Lord Is Mighty; piney…woods amen corners much beloved by my twenty…two…year…old mother and my aunts: that healing is never about the healed or the healer; but about God's will。 For one to rejoice at the sick made well is normal; quite the expected thing; but the person healed has an obligation to then ask why … to meditate on God's will; and the extraordinary lengths to which God has gone to realize His will。
What did God want of me; in this case? What did He want badly enough to put healing power in the hands of a child…murderer? To be on the block; instead o