Something's wrong with this picture. What kind of Savior? What kind of

rescue or what kind of heal or what kind of deliver or would refuse the

prayer of the paramedic.

Johnny Ericcentata will tackle the subject of suffering, especially when healing doesn't come.

Welcome to focus on the family with Jim Daly. I'm John Fuller.

John, many people are going to be helped by the message we're sharing from Johnny today.

And next time, we received a huge response, the last time we aired it, As a quadriplegic for over 50 years, Johnny has a lifetime

of experience dealing with suffering, including the mental anguish that comes when it appears that God is refusing to heal as we heard in that clip

Many years of chronic pain two bouts of cancer and just last year two extended stays in the hospital for double pneumonia.

I mean, at some point you're going, Lord, are you there?

And as we'll hear today, Johnny has learned how to lean in to God and find his purpose for her life.

Even in the midst of suffering, it is such a lesson for all of us.

Yeah, she's a remarkable person and here now is Johnny Ericcentata speaking at the National Religious Broadcasters Convention in

Nashville, Tennessee a number of years ago on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly.

If you spend any time with me at all, you know that I love the old hymns.

I love to sing them.

But I'm going to tell you something.

I sing because I have to. I remember darker days when I was first injured and in the hospital.

I wanted so much to cry, but instead I would stifle the tears and comfort myself singing a hymn like,

Savior, Savior, hear my humble cry,

while on others thou are calling,

do not pass me by and it always reminded me as I sang that of the pull of

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