A whispered hope that God listens and responds. Faith in what can't be explained -- a miracle.Alexis Berit Lewis needed one badly the day she was born.She was born 10 weeks early, weighing 2 pounds, 9 ounces, and her heart seemed to weaken with every th-thump. A structural problem in the heart made fluid gather around it, and bleeding in her brain worsened her fragile condition.The way her father, Tim Lewis, remembers, he was told that hope was fading and that it would soon be time to say goodbye.The baby, said Dr. John Walker, a neonatologist, "was extremely ill."Tim Lewis said that's when it happened. A friend of the family, Don Lloyd -- Brother Lloyd -- happened to be at the hospital praying for another family. Tim Lewis caught sight of him in the lobby and hurried him to Kim's bedside. There were grandparents in the room, but there was no sound as the Pentecostal preacher invoked the Lord's name."The whole room felt it," said Tim Lewis, 41. "It felt like the temperature in the room just dropped." Lloyd told him to check on his daughter. God had his hands on her, working. Alexis would be OK.And she was.Within hours, Lewis said, his daughter's condition improved dramatically. The physical problems that put her life at risk healed. Doctors thought they would have to install a shunt in the child's head to help address the bleeding in the brain, but that hasn't been needed. Kim Lewis felt a sense of peace and relaxation.Even Walker and Dr. George Veloudis, the physicians caring for Alexis, said that aggressive medical treatment was crucial and that her recovery couldn't be explained medically."I believe it was a miracle," Veloudis said.
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