More stories coming out from the Aurora Theater Shooting

• Petra is just one of the remaining people that was injury in the shooting.   Her family already had their plate full with grief, as her mom has terminal cancer and is in the final stages of that terrible disease.

  
  

  In the midst of this horrible event, they found out about a miracle.  Petra was shot 3 times in the arm and one time in her head...through her nose... and through to the back of her brain...   Here follows the miracle... (Taken from blog below)....

  
  

  The doctor fills us in on the miracle. Honestly, he doesn’t call it that, he just uses words like “happily” and “wonderfully” and “in a very fortunate way” and “luckily” and “we were really surprised by that.” Kim and I know a miracle when we see it.
  
  It seems as if the bullet traveled through Petra’s brain without hitting any significant brain areas. The doctor explains that Petra’s brain has had from birth a small “defect” in it. It is a tiny channel of fluid running through her skull, like a tiny vein through marble, or a small hole in an oak board, winding from front to rear. Only a CAT scan would catch it, and Petra would have never noticed it.
  
  But in Petra’s case, the shotgun buck shot, maybe even the size used for deer hunting, enters her brain from the exact point of this defect. Like a marble through a small tube, the defect channels the bullet from Petra’s nose through her brain. It turns slightly several times, and comes to rest at the rear of her brain. And in the process, the bullet misses all the vital areas of the brain. In many ways, it almost misses the brain itself. Like a giant BB though a straw created in Petra’s brain before she was born, it follows the route of the defect. It is channeled in the least harmful way. A millimeter in any direction and the channel is missed.

  
  

  As he shares, the doctor seems taken aback. It is an odd thing to have a surgeon show a bit of wonder. Professionally, these guys own the universe, it seems, and take everything in stride. He is obviously gifted as a surgeon, and is kind in his manner. “It couldn’t have gone better. If it were my daughter,” he says quietly, glancing around to see if any of his colleagues might be watching him, “I’d be ecstatic. I’d be dancing a jig.” He smiles. I can’t keep my smile back, or the tears of joy. In Christianity we call it prevenient grace: God working ahead of time for a particular event in the future. It’s just like the God I follow to plan the route of a bullet through a brain long before Batman ever rises. Twenty-two years before.

  
  

   

  Psalm 103

  ¹ Praise the Lord, my soul;
  all my inmost being, praise his holy name.
  ² Praise the Lord, my soul,
  and forget not all his benefits—
  ³ who forgives all your sins
  and heals all your diseases,
  ⁴ who redeems your life from the pit
  and crowns you with love and compassion,
  ⁵ who satisfies your desires with good things
  so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

  ⁶ The Lord works righteousness
  and justice for all the oppressed.

  ⁷ He made known his ways to Moses,
  his deeds to the people of Israel:
  ⁸ The Lord is compassionate and gracious,
  slow to anger, abounding in love.
  ⁹ He will not always accuse,
  nor will he harbor his anger forever;
  ¹⁰ he does not treat us as our sins deserve
  or repay us according to our iniquities.
  ¹¹ For as high as the heavens are above the earth,
  so great is his love for those who fear him;
  ¹² as far as the east is from the west,
  so far has he removed our transgressions from us.

  ¹³ As a father has compassion on his children,
  so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him;
  ¹⁴ for he knows how we are formed,
  he remembers that we are dust.
  ¹⁵ The life of mortals is like grass,
  they flourish like a flower of the field;
  ¹⁶ the wind blows over it and it is gone,
  and its place remembers it no more.
  ¹⁷ But from everlasting to everlasting
  the Lord’s love is with those who fear him,
  and his righteousness with their children’s children —
  ¹⁸ with those who keep his covenant and remember to obey his precepts. 

  https://bstrait.wordpress.com/2012/07/22/a-miracle-inside-the-the-aurora-shooting-one-victims-story/

  

  
  

  
  

  A Miracle Inside the Aurora Shooting: One Victim’s Story