Miracle in the Mirror (by Mark Butain)

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'Miracle in the Mirror' is a fairly short biography written by the late Mark Buntain. It features Nita Edwards, a remarkable lady from Sri Lanka who was seriously injured by a fall when she was a student, and became paralysed.

Nita lost all sense of feeling, and there was little hope for her as the paralysis crept gradually higher and higher in her body. After a year in hospital, she could not move at all and needed a constant care assistant.

Yet she was healed, miraculously.

The non-Christian doctors who had attended her refused to accept it, but thousands of people had seen Nita strapped to a wheelchair, with deformed hands and her head uncontrollable, unable even to talk - and then saw her, just a few days later, walking with ease, and talking about what God had done for her.

Skeptics may scoff, and those who believe God does not heal today may be cynical. But there's no reason to doubt this remarkably testimony which was witnessed by so many. Nita Edwards went on to be a tremendous witness for Christ in Asia.

The writing feels a little stilted in places. Perhaps it's just because this book was written in the early 1980s, just a few years after the healing, when this was a typical style for biographies.

But the story is so gripping that the style hardly matters. Even though it was obvious what was coming - even down to the date of the healing, which Nita knew in advance - it was difficult to put this book down by about two-thirds of the way through.

It's not in print any more, but can sometimes be found second-hand.