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 In my recent blog,  “Catching Up On Stories”, I shared a story of a girl in Romania who was healed by God from the inside out. Literally. Here is her story through the eyes of Lindsay Nelson and the before and after pictures of her.
 
 Dolma was a young woman I met in a Gypsy Village our second day in Romania.
When we arrived in her village she was sitting far removed from the rest of the
crowd, defensive and clearly not buying into the “activities” we brought. She
caught my eye right away. She was wearing a large bandage around her head and
another wrapped around her left wrist and forearm and she had a black eye. I
found out later because she had been thrown from a car during a car accident. I
could tell that she was in pain and I sensed an anger or bitterness surrounding
her “corner”. I felt God nudge me to go talk to her, but I figured she looked
like she wanted to be left alone and doubted I could successfully communicate
with her anyway. It wasn’t long before God so patiently nudged me to go to her
again, so when I saw her leave the corner and go to sit on a rock near the road
I followed. As I got closer to her, my heart became so overwhelmed with love
for her! She was so frail but uniquely beautiful beneath the wounds. It was an
awkward couple minutes trying to communicate my name and asking for hers but
she seamed happy that I was there so I left it at that. And there we sat for
about half hour not saying anything but totally content and at peace. I must
say it was a new experience for me. I enjoy talking. But there was nothing I
could do about it. God was
teaching me about his power and
creativity. Dolma and I had a splendid time just giggling about our silence and
basking in the beauty of it.

When it came time to
leave I wanted to make sure we prayed for Dolma’s injuries. Our translator,
Stacie, came to us followed by a trail of little village children and we ALL
prayed for healing for Dolma. I could tell Dolma was really moved by it. As we
were walking to the bus to leave for the day Dolma runs up behind me and throws
her arms around me and kisses me on the cheek. I say “I love you” in Romanian (Te u besk, phonetically) and
she says it back. Wow.

Five days later we
return to that Gypsy village and I am excited to see if Dolma will be there.
I’m looking around for her and my teammate Ashley has to point her out to me
because I didn’t even recognize her! Her bandages were gone, her black eye was
totally healed and she was sitting out laughing in conversation with the
adults. We saw each other at the same time and I ran over to her. She jumped up and clobbered me with a
hug and we jumped up and down as she showed me how God had totally healed her
wounds (and I could tell not only on the outside)!!! She was beaming. I mean
absolutely radiating with hope
and love. I was so blown away.

 Then, two girls from my team (Daina and
Denise) and myself were asked to go pray for a woman who was bedridden in a
house down the road from where we were. Dolma insisted on coming and praying for the woman with us! Gods
grace had healed her and given her faith to pray for others. It was so awesome.
God is so awesome.