[SuziQ]

While it's possible that this was it all along. I believe it just as possible that the condition could have changed today as a result of prayer.

Prayer could also have led them to that diagnosis where they didn't see it before.

[ExGeeEye]

Good morning, everyone. I had meant to post this several days ago, but...No excuses. I keep forgetting, until now.

O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,
The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won,
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring;

But O heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.

--Walt Whitman

Thy task is done; the bond are free:
We bear thee to an honored grave,
Whose proudest monument shall be
The broken fetters of the slave.

--William Cullen Bryant

Hail, the victorious dead.