Sarah Breaks Down After 9-Year-Old Girl’s Battle Is Brought to National Stage
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders grew visibly emotional this week as she shared the heart-wrenching tale of a 9-year-old girl from Texas, Sophia Marie Campa-Peters, who has requested that the Trump administration ask the world to pray for her.
“This Friday, Sophia will undergo brain surgery at Boston Children’s Hospital, and she has one request: She has asked the entire world come together and pray for her on the day of her surgery,” Sanders said during Tuesday’s White House briefing, according to a transcript from the White House.
“In her amazing, 9-year-old mind, that meant creating a goal of just reaching 10,000 people,” Sanders continued, her voice noticeably cracking with emotion. “We want to make sure she gets that and far exceeds it. So today, Sophia, I’m here to tell you that millions of people from every corner of the world will be praying for you on January 26th.”
Including President Donald Trump, who told Sanders to tell Campa-Peters “to keep fighting, to never give up, keep inspiring us all, and never, ever lose faith in God. With Him, all things are possible.”
We too want to join the White House’s call by requesting that all of you, our dear readers, pray for Campa-Peters as well. Though just to be clear, we already know in our hearts that she’ll be just fine, no matter what happens. How so?
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Because, despite suffering “from a rare disease that causes the blood vessels in her brain to narrow and close,” as noted Tuesday by Sanders, and despite “enduring four massive strokes” three years ago that “left her partially paralyzed,” Campa-Peters has never once balked in fear.
“When the doctors told her she would never walk again, she dismissed them,” Sanders said. “‘If you’re only going to talk about what I can’t do, then I don’t want to hear it,’ she said. ‘Just let me try.’ Not only did she try, she succeeded, leaving her doctors dumfounded. When they asked how she was doing these things, she had a simple answer: ‘Because I’m awesome,’ and she’d smile.”
Campa-Peters’ mother and father clearly didn’t raise a wimp, particularly of the spineless, liberal kind. Listen to Sanders’ emotional plea below:
Will you be praying for Sophia Marie Campa-Peters?
Two years ago Campa-Peters suffered from another bout of minor strokes, yet she continued to remain strong nevertheless, prompting one of her neurosurgeons to say the following to her mother: “This little girl has God on her side.”
She does indeed have God on her side.
Combined, these experiences eventually inspired Campa-Peters’ mother to reach out to the Trump administration.
“In a world where things are so bad and ugly, when there is so much loss of faith, people needed to hear Sophia’s story so that they could hear a true testament to God’s grace and His glory revealed,” her mother wrote, according to Sanders.
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So please, if you have some time to spare and you believe in the power of prayer, take a moment to pray for this young lady. Thank you. https://conservativetribune.com/sarah-sanders-breaks-down/
Hopefully the little girl's surgeons are liberals. Why isn't this thumper crap seeded in the religious forum?
You know, it's a funny thing, but when I saw this article I really felt that her recovery would not rely on prayer, but on the skill of the surgeons. However, upon reading your comment, although I really don't practise my religion much, I've decided to pray for her. Keep it up, devangelical, to try to influence others with the negativity of your comments, and YOU pray that you will never encounter a situation similar to this little girl's.
The girl's prognosis and recovery will depend entirely on the skill of the surgeons and other members of the Healthcare team. Prayer won't make a difference with that. But it will provide an emotional comfort to her, like well wishes.
I believe that a certain mental effort CAN aid in healing, in recovery and in resisting decline. The power of positive thinking has been established, and I have seen it in a friend who overcame terminal cancer through what she called "positive thinking", and my sister-in-law who never gave up her positive thinking and continued in remission for 20 years. In my opinion, prayer is a form of positive thinking - nobody can honestly say prayer is negative thinking unless you're praying for someone to die a horrible death, or something like that. I think that if a person has faith that there is a cosmic superior existence then the strengthening of their immune system through the hopeful, if not confident, belief that it will cause a beneficial strengthening of resistence and healing just might happen to save their life.
And prayer is a form of positive thinking, it is an exercise of hope, and of positive thinking.
Your children will tell you that Wilbur didn't want to die, and called out "I don't want to die", and so then the message was transferred by Charlotte on the web that Wilbur was "Some pig" and as it ended, Zuckerman's Wonderful Pig stayed alive.
However, there is also the story of Sam, who prayed to God for a big lottery win, but others kept winning until Sam eventually died, went to heaven and asked God why he didn't listen to his prayers. God replied, Sam, I TRIED to help you, but you had to buy a ticket.
(That just reminded me of a movie I once saw about a young man who got involved with a cult, called "Ticket to Heaven".)
bfd
It can also be detrimental. A certain number of people who pray will put too much effort into prayer and not enough effort into the physical needs of keeping themselves alive. Forgot to take your meds? Just say an extra prayer. Too tired to get up and go to physical therapy? Lay there and pray. Can’t stop eating sugary garbage? Pray about it.
Having Donald Trump pray for you is a scary thought. His god is money.
I am glad this young lady is doing well. I am sure the people that prayed will immediately claim that it was those prayers that saved her. But here is the real question... Who would they have blamed had she NOT survived? You can bet that it wouldn't be God. That's the problem with believing in a "god"... If you are going to give them credit for something, you must blame them when things go wrong....lest thy be called a flaming hypocrite.