Recounted from Guideposts.org, in 1987, Jeanne-Pierre Belay was wheelchair bound with multiple sclerosis when he traveled to Lourdes, France, hoping for a miracle. He recounted: “As the priest was giving me unction on the forehead and hands, I had the impression that everything was turning around me,” … “In a fraction of a second I lost all sense of time and space. God was coming to cure my heart. I was invaded by a powerful feeling of liberation and peace that I had never experienced before.” After that experience, Jean-Pierre began to feel a tingling in his legs. A few days later, he took his first unaided steps in years. Subsequent examinations would show only minor traces of the illness. Though still a medical mystery, Jean-Pierre’s cure was deemed an official miracle by the Vatican in 2002. Can Creator comment?

This, indeed, was what you would call a "miracle healing," where someone was saved from a progressive chronic illness that frequently ends up with severe limitation and an early passing. What we would say is an important lesson about this particular example you have recounted is the setting involved in traveling to Lourdes, the world-famous place of miracle healings where thousands of people journey to reach every year in the hope of obtaining a divine intervention to help them overcome a physical disability or health liability from chronic illness. Many come in desperation, having exhausted every avenue with seemingly no benefit, and are hoping against hope that this magical place of Lourdes, France, will help them turn the corner. It is, indeed, the case that all places attended by the devout will develop a collective thought form repository of lofty thoughts and a positive energy because the thoughts were launched by people in divine alignment. But it is equally the case there will be thought forms from the weak and desperate, the ones clinging to life, the ones living in despair brought by loved ones, perhaps more than their own inner conviction and belief in a last-ditch hope they will be touched by a miracle and saved. Those doubts and anguish are on record and floating about in the environment as well so, depending on the vibration a person brings with them on arrival, they may tune into high or low energies, so to speak, and this can color the experience in terms of their perceptions. But what truly matters is the individual’s standing with the divine, what is in their heart of hearts, what is their true intention they are launching forth. If it is one that is quite mixed because their doubt is strong, there may be little we can do to help heal them because they have already decided it is unlikely or impossible and we cannot override their belief in a dark future because they have chosen it, in effect, with such strong conviction. To override that would be a violation of our charter, to allow you free agency and free will, to come and go as you wish, and experience what you choose, even if it is unhealthy and self-destructive in the end—that is the power you hold as divine humans. You are in charge, we are not. These are all points to ponder about what goes on when someone is in a crisis and is seeking divine assistance. There are many factors and variables in the equation that will determine the outcome. There are many hidden influences a person is unaware of, the sum total of their karmic predispositions, the karmic imperatives that may be in play. We can truly see what is highest and best for a person, whether there is a karmic lesson underway so that an offer, even from God, to heal the person will be rejected by the individual’s higher self, who has the charter to govern your energy and your destiny as a consequence, and to rule on such questions of what is truly best for you as an individual. This is a divine safeguard and helps to reinforce the individual spiritual standing so that on a small local scale of the individual, someone is always looking out for you that is a part of the divine realm so you will not get lost in the shuffle in pursuit of a more lofty and widespread goal of Creator, for example, that is thinking more about the broader good than the impact on a given individual. This is also an exercise in delegation of spiritual authority and is a complex subject of its own. The important thing to know in the context of this question is, "You have many looking out for you, more than you realize. All are a potential resource and all are of value in many ways beyond your perceptions." The backstory of this successful healing from a chronic debilitating illness leaving the person immobilized followed by a rapid recovery of motor function, following that seemingly magical trip to Lourdes, relates to the location itself in this case. This person was in need of a lift—a psychological lift and a spiritual one as well. The magic of Lourdes is that it is an icon representing the very idea and reality of miracles. What this does for many is to help them overcome their own doubts and create an inner allowing because the idea they are in a "place of miracles" can help them let go of their misgivings and surrender their fate to the divine with some conviction behind it, and that might not have been possible to create in their life back home. It is the decision to "journey to a miracle" that allows a crack in the door to open so that divine light can come in and begin to turn things towards a positive outcome, and that is what happened for this individual. Again, we would point to this as being another demonstration of a true partnership of a human with the divine realm. He made the first move and it was an important one in helping to overcome inner doubt and fear enough to allow the divine to answer his prayers and the prayers of his caregivers for his betterment.