 Healing
the Family Tree
by Rev. John
Hampsch A blockbuster on how sin and evil can follow down through the generations,
affecting our families in ways we never knew! Based on an intimate familiarity
with Scripture, Father Hampsch, a renowned psychologist and charismatic priest ,
grants us new tools to approach stubborn problems and curses.
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PSYCHOLOGIST WHO 'DIED' ON OPERATING TABLE REMINDS US THAT WITH GOD, NOTHING IS TERMINAL
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was in the early fall of 2005 that a psychologist from Michigan named Jack
Grenan heard a voice at church. It came out of the blue. "Somebody in your
family is going to get very sick," it stated. The next Sunday -- as his wife was at
choir practice (this a Methodist church) -- he heard the very same words.
Dr. Grenan, of Twin Lake, certainly didn't want to hear this -- and was no locutionist. "I actually heard a voice as if someone whispered in my ear," he told us. He had five children, one just twelve at the time, and so his mantra became: "God, give it to me. Lord, give it to me." If there was going to be an illness in his family, let it be him, was his prayer.
And incredibly, the following March, during routine blood tests for a procedure on his gall bladder, Jack learned that he had third-stage cancer of the colon that had spread "everywhere."
In other words, a death sentence.
This was a tough guy who had grown up on the mean streets of Detroit -- bludgeoned twice as a youngster by vicious neighborhood gangs -- but now he faced the end of the line.
After a surgeon removed a portion of his colon, Grenan developed peritonitis -- an infection in his abdominal cavity -- and was rushed back to the hospital, where, on March 26, 2006, during emergency surgery, he suffered a massive heart attack along with lung and kidney failure, and flat-lined: "died on the table," as he puts it. He was brought back from the brink, but they indicated to his wife that he had virtually no chance of recovery. A coma was induced in then hopes of controlling his infection and several other potentially fatal complications. For the next three months, Dr. Grenan was unconscious and on a ventilator with his temperature at 106 degrees!
No way would he not have major brain damage, if he ever came out of the coma.
No way.
Jack was only in his early fifties, a successful educator, a man who had been principal at the Gerald R. Ford Corps Center in Grand Rapids, a school for "throwaway" youth. Raised Catholic, he also had a coaching career behind him and had become Methodist because it was his wife's faith. It was just a matter of time, the doctors told her.
But God had other plans, and -- again, incredibly -- the infection dissipated. Major brain damage? For a month Dr. Grenan couldn't recognize family members and didn't even know who he was.
God had other plans.
They were ready to ship him to a nursing home to die. Here he was supposed to have been on a major chemotherapy regimen, but he had taken no treatment for the eight months of other complications.
That was peculiar, because when first diagnosed, he had been given just six months to live.
He became a case in point, however, that God -- and his angels -- can do anything and manipulate any aspect of our existence.
The most severe illnesses can be "fixed" by angels.
And that is precisely what seems to have happened.
In the flow of the miraculous, a nurse suggested Jack may have been suffering from aluminum poisoning from the treatments and dialysis cleared things up quickly -- within twenty-four hours.
Once Grenan was able to communicate, doctors asked him if he could remember any of the Christian music that was so frequently played for him during the coma as well as ESPN, a sports channel on television, or perhaps his family talking to him. Dr. Grenan could remember nothing -- except a glimpse of Heaven.
As it happened, back when he had "flat-lined," the psychologist had take a little sojourn to Heaven.
"That very same entity who spoke to me at church -- I believe it was an angel -- was floating above me in the corner of the hospital room," he recounts. "You didn't see him; we were in an intellectual existence. My spirit was with him. He showed me a street, a road, with yellow down the middle, like a movie camera, and at first only one side of the road. There was this playground with kids and a pure blue sky and as you looked at it, there was this light and resonance that was like a thousand light bulbs all around. His exact words were, 'You may join them right now if you wish or' -- and as he said this the 'camera' went to the other side and showed me my body with a ventilator -- 'you can go back and take care of your family. If you do, [if you go back], you will suffer.'"
But Jack chose to return. There was his youngest, 12-year-old Katy. She needed him. "I have to go back," he told the angel during his near-death brush.
And just then, recounts the former principal -- this practical man, this professional educator -- he "floated on a beam of light and just as I reached my body there was a giant bam and I went back in." Within three months he was walking (doctors had said he never would again) and the cancer cleared after chemotherapy.
"The overwhelming feeling was a perfection and peace," he adds about Heaven. "It was perfect. It was like perfection designed on a computer. You just knew it wasn't earthly." Many who have this experience wander toward the New Age, and Dr. Grenan -- in his perception as a Christian psychologist -- says it's because their "previous body of knowledge can't give them the peace and perspective and so they take a shotgun approach to finding another way of looking at it and a satisfactory rationale that they can hang their hats on."
That didn't happen to Jack. He remained Christian. He believes "there is a devil." He also has a new spiritual sensitivity. Once, driving with his wife, he was suddenly led to pull over, explaining to his wife that if he didn't she would be killed.
Moments later, a car came careening at a high speed through the stop sign. It would have t-boned them.
That mystical perception has also given him an impression of the future. D. Grenan says that pornography and perversion are now as bad as the debauchery in Roman times, that we will suffer as a result, and that economic and other disasters or jolts will lead the lower class to "get fed up." He sees potential anarchy. He said we came extremely close to it during the financial shocks two years ago. Whatever is coming, he says, will come fast. "Be prepared for something to happen very quickly," says Dr. Grenan, who now works for a rural physicians' organization and warns of another financial crisis or perhaps a widespread disease.
More than anything, he says, prepare for Heaven. We all die, he points out. But he also has this to say: just don't let any doctors tell you (since they can't know) when that will be -- even if it's "terminal" cancer.
With God, terminal is meaningless.
[resources: afterlife, spiritual warfare retreats with Michael H. Brown: Wisconsin (September 11) and Connecticut (October 2)
[Photo courtesy Muskegon Chronicle article on Jack]
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