Last year my teachers brother got in a bad accident and had to have a very risky surgery. He could have come out of the surgery being paralyzed from the neck down, not able to move his neck or even worse. This news was given to us on a Friday. His surgery was on the following Monday. In those 4 days with the help and support of about 30 people, my four best friends and I made 1000 origami cranes to make a wish for our teachers brother to be healed. After a weekend of no sleep we went to school with 800 cranes made on Monday morning. The 1000th crane was folded at 1:17 pm that Monday just as the end of 7th period bell rang. Those of us who were there for the last string of the whole thing, all counting and folding cranes for the past 45 minutes in the Chorus room, fell in to a deep silence as the last crane was dropped in the box. We made the wish. Tuesday morning we found out our teachers brothers surgery was a success. He wasn't paralyzed and still had some, but limited, movement in his neck.
I don't necessarily believe that the wish was what made him alright. I believe that him being healed was a gift from God showing us that if we set our mind to something, and get the job done with a positive attitude for the good of someone else, He will reward us.
We had never met the man, and I don't think we ever will. But we wanted to help him, we needed to. If you've ever made one paper crane, you'd know that it's not that easy. Making 1000 of them was probably one of the hardest things I've ever done. But we did it, and God thanked us by healing Jeffery.
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