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The Unfolding

Page 90: Emma Villanueva

The Unfolding

Northwestern Media

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9867 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Healing can be a mysterious thing. Sometimes God answers our prayers. Sometimes we don't see the miracle we are hoping for. For Emma Villanueva, both are true. As a young girl she was miraculously healed, saved from a surgery that would have left her wheelchair-bound for the rest of her life. Then as a teenager, Emma was diagnosed with Muscular Dystrophy. In the years since, she has watched her body grow increasingly weak. What happens to your faith when you know God can heal, but He doesn't?

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0:00.0

Page 90 of the unfolding is the story of Emma Vienueva.

0:04.6

God healed me. So for a little bit, I was like, has everything I've always thought and like

0:09.5

been telling everyone been a lie? Maybe you weren't actually healed. That was just made up because

0:15.0

look at you now. God's story has been unfolding. Since the beginning of time.

0:23.6

He invites you to be a part of it.

0:26.6

Another page in the unfolding.

0:33.6

The Unfolding. Hi, this is Meredith Foster.

0:44.6

Healing is a very mysterious thing. Sometimes God answers our prayers, and then other times we don't see the miracle that we're hoping for.

0:53.8

For Emma Vianueva, both of these

0:55.6

have been true. When she was young, she experienced a miraculous healing. And then as a teenager,

1:01.1

she was diagnosed with a debilitating disease, which has no cure. So what happens to your faith?

1:07.2

When you know God can heal, but your body continues to grow weaker.

1:13.0

I am the oldest of four daughters. My sisters are just my absolute best friends.

1:19.7

I always tell people this for context of who I am and my personality. My mom was a clown.

1:25.6

And so she literally, literally. So the first time i saw the circus i was like oh my goodness

1:32.3

i have been raised for this so just like very over-exaggerated and all she would always like

1:39.8

make me perform and tell my story and just be very over the top.

1:45.5

So, um, and then my dad is just the calmest, most stable, um, reassuring human being

1:54.5

that I've ever met.

1:55.8

Tell me about when you were, when you were very small.

1:58.3

Yeah.

1:58.9

Um, when I was young, 10 months old, there's these baby pictures of me with a hot pink cast on my arm.

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