Picture of Aleta & Joe taken 1993 by Fran Meservy

Aleta's Healing by Frances M. McCrory-Meservy January 1983 - January 1987

Aleta drank to kill the emotional pain from something that happened to her when she was an airline stewardess in her early twenties.  I promised her I would never tell anyone what happened and I must keep that promise.  It was a horrible experience that was not from any fault of her own but she was too embarrassed to tell anyone (even her psychiatrist) about it.

We laughed, prayed and cried together.  God's word was all that helped settle her emotions.  She was in and out of the hospital because of her mental state and falls from drinking too much.

I remember one time when she was in the psych ward and I went to see her, she told me she was so tired of hearing her husband and son preach to her that she did not want to hear anything the Bible said.  I said OK.  She asked me a question and I said, "God showed me" and answered her question.  She accepted the advise and calmed down.  Years later she asked me how God had shown me that.  I told her it was in the Bible.  She said, "I knew it! I knew it!  You tricked me and we had a good laugh.

I had known Aleta almost 4 years when I came across the scripture that said you were only to work with some one for 4 years.  We only had about 5 weeks to go.  I fell on my knees and begged God to intervene and remove all the pain from Aleta so she could be well.  I loved her so much I could not stand losing her.

Four weeks later Joe called me and said he had taken Aleta to the hospital and the Doctors said she would not live through the night.  They said her liver was destroyed from the drinking and all her other organs were shutting down one at a time.  He asked me to pray with him for Aleta.  We prayed that God would have mercy on her and heal her. 

At midnight Aleta called me and told me that Jesus was there in her room and he was telling her each thing that had caused her pain and was ripping the pain away and replacing it with peace and love.  She was so excited she could not contain herself.  Then she said, "I have to go He's telling me something else" and hung up.

When the nurse came into her room to check on her at 5 AM, they found her dancing around the room praising God.  Of course she was released that day because God had completely healed her.

Joe said the insurance company would not pay the hospital bill because they admitted a perfectly healthy person to the hospital.  Joe said he did not mind paying that bill himself because Aleta did not need alcohol any more.  She had quit drinking.

Before Aleta died she became a blessing to a woman who had a problem similar to the one she had before God healed her. 

Aleta died on Tuesday before Hurricane Rita hit Texas & Louisiana.  Joe said she was fine when she went to bed but Jesus took her home in her sleep and he found her body when he went to wake her up that morning.  Aleta spent Christmas 2005 with Jesus.

Prov 31:6-7 Give strong drink to him who is perishing, And wine to those who are bitter of heart. ...

Rom 15:4 For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.

Luke 13:6-9 He also spoke this parable: "A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it and found none. "Then he said to the keeper of his vineyard, 'Look, for three years I have come seeking fruit on this fig tree and find none. Cut it down; why does it use up the ground?' "But he answered and said to him, 'Sir, let it alone this year also, until I dig around it and fertilize it. 'And if it bears fruit, well. But if not, after that you can cut it down.'"

2 Cor 1:3-4 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

2 Cor 5:6-9 So we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord. For we walk by faith, not by sight. We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord. Therefore we make it our aim, whether present or absent, to be well pleasing to Him.