Miracles Do Happen, By Roger Behra

SHORT COMMUNICATION 205

Miracles Do Happen

By

Roger Behra

In this communication you are going to read about a man originally from Russia who is a living example that miracles really do happen. There are other worthwhile examples, but this one about George Rodanaia is most captivating and very convincing that a higher power is in charge. Please keep in mind that the whole episode is on record and can be clinically verified in Russian medical records.

George Rodanaia was a young dissident in Russia when all this happened to him. He openly and strongly disagreed and spoke out against his own country. That led to certain retaliation from the Russian government. It happened in 1976.

One day as George was out and about the KGB took care of this outspoken dissident. Rodanaia was twice run over by a car. The second time was to make sure there was no slipup in the assassination attempt. George was considered a dead and very useless dissident. He was rushed to the hospital, pronounced stone-cold dead, and taken to the morgue. He was quick frozen and kept there at 40° for three days.

Three days later George was removed from the freezer vault. A teem of doctors were going to perform an autopsy. As the senior doctor started to cut George open George’s eyes popped open. The doctor closed the eyes. As the doctor resumed his cutting George´s eyes popped open again. The doctor seemed puzzled and closed the eyes a second time. When George’s eyes opened a third time, the doctor jumped backward and screamed with total shock. A hurried examination took place. Sure enough George was not a stone-cold corpse at all, and he was given a special room and treated as a special medical mystery patient. An alive George was a miracle.

The fact that George returned to life from his near-death experience is miraculous by itself. But there was a second miracle that was connected to his very grave physical condition. All his ribs were broken. His muscles were destroyed. His feet were a horrible mess. He could not talk for there days. The pain was unbearable. He was kept alive, but it took nine months of hospitalization and eleven more months of therapy and rehabilitation for George to get well physically when all the odds were against that ever happening. After getting well he threw all his atheistic and communistic thinking far out the window and enlisted in a seminary program in the Georgian Orthodox Church and became a priest. The American government and the help of a friend in Texas helped him and his family to immigrate to live in Nederland, Texas.

George’s NDE and the resulting miracles transformed his thinking and life. He realized God is a real and is the highest power, and everything is under God’s direction in a place of happiness and unconditional love. His NDE and recovery has enabled him to make complete sense of religion and science. And in the field of science George’s case challenged the entire field of near-death studies and the belief in miracles. A man, who was clinically certified as stone-cold dead, was a physical wreck, and in a 40° morgue vault for three days was the perfect example to challenge the arrogance and smugness of doctors and medical science.

R. B.
8-30-10