Double Testimony of Healings - Barrenness Curse Broken and MCS

A Life Sentence

"Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men! For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder.

"Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death.

"Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he saveth them out of their distresses He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions."
Psalm 107: 15-20
This sums up the bizarre situation we would find ourselves in only six years after Darcy and I were married.

In the beginning of 1991, my wife Darcy came down with Environmental Illness, EI. Some call it Multiple Chemical Sensitivies, MCS. She became allergic to just about everything and everyone. I had to perform what I called a cleansing ceremony simply to be in the same room with her when I came home. This was because the residues on my clothes and skin from just being in normal life situations would make Darcy very sick.

For two years we rented an older farm house. We kept the main half sealed off by taping shut the hall door that led to the dining room, living room, and bedroom. Darcy lived in the kitchen and had access to the bathroom, a small closet and a large glass enclosed porch. She had to sleep on five kitchen chairs pushed together to form a "bed." On these she was able to put a very thin layer of padding. To lay on any type of bed or thick padding or even the floor would cause reactions. Darcy suffered symptoms such as heart murmers, extreme fatigue, lack of mental coherence, body pain, severe shortness of breath, asthma, throat tightening and closing, abdominal pain, blurred vision, dizziness....the list could go on.

She was also sensitive to foods. "Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat;" had surely come to pass in her life. Only organically grown grain and produce could be eaten, and she reacted to many of those. She could only tolerate glass bottled spring water and organic rice milk every so often. Traditional grains were out. Quinoa, amaranth and spelt were in. For sweets, there was one type of organic cookie Darcy could eat once in awhile. Perfumes and colognes, soaps, fragrances made it intolerable for her to enter buildings or converse in person. She would have to stand down wind of a person to speak with them, or talk through our glass door.

When the highway department repaired the road in front of our house, we were homeless for a couple weeks. This was in October in Western New York. I would drop Darcy off at a park, run my window cleaning route for the day and pick her up in the evening to sleep in our car - without heat. Heat caused the car fabric to "off gas," or emit chemical tinged odors, causing serious consequences.

In an effort to make Darcy's life more comfortable, we were looking for a place away from the farms, busy roads, radio and microwave towers, power lines, vineyards, and industry. She also had electromagnetic field, EMF, sensitivity which caused her to react to electromagnetic fields. As we searched the Western New York countryside Darcy would say, "There is a radio or microwave tower over this hill." She could tell because she had TMJ and electromagnetic fields caused her jaw to hurt and her mental functions to diminish. Later Darcy could not go househunting with me as her condition grew worse. She couldn't travel. Gasoline and engine fluids and their fumes caused massive reactions and shut her down with pain and confusion.

Brain fog was a major symptom for her. In April of 1994, after 3 years of searching, we finally found a home in an area reasonably suited to Darcy's needs. It was a hunting lodge a few miles from Friendship, New York, on a seasonal road. As we expected, Darcy was sensitive to the house we had bought. To accommodate her, we gutted out the house and put up old fashioned lathe, made of poplar. Then we applied plaster without a bunch of additives. A natural clear sealer was found to coat the plaster as paint could not be used, nor could the plaster be left unsealed. Carpeting, out. Linoleum, out.

Paneling, pressed board cabinets, wallpaper, paints were out. The only wood she did okay with was poplar, so it was used in all areas needing lumber, including the floors. During the time of these initial renovations my wife had to live in three 9'x10' metal storage sheds. One to sleep in, one to cook in, one to house her other activities. This lasted 7 months until I was able, with much help from friends and family, to get one room of the house tolerable for her. Our home was designed to keep all water pipes and electricity on the north side of the house to minimize her EMF exposure. She could walk a 3.5 mile loop without passing a car on our desolate dirt road.

In April, 1991, we also began a ministry with Dianne Kelly of Clinton, LA, to the environmentally ill. Harmony Hill EI/MCS Relief, inc. was founded to supply aid to those afflicted with the disease that had tormented us. With the help of Feel-Rite Health Food stores, in the Buffalo area, we were able to operate Stamp Out Hunger. This program was responsible for giving thousands of dollars of food aid to the chemically sensitive in the area. Also, at this time, we published a free monthly fellowship letter to environmentally ill Christians. The EI Home Companion was initially sent to 40 people who were mainly from our church denomination, the Worldwide Church of God. It grew and grew in circulation until we were reaching 650 readers.

The purpose of the fellowship letter was to encourage us in our common faith and illness. We wanted our readers to always know that God was with them and we exhorted them to hold on to the faith delivered. Darcy's perspective at the time was that God is in our life for good and that this trial of EI/MCS was allowed in her life for her growth and learning. In November of 1995, Darcy woke one day with the thought that she had learned everything she "could possibly ever, ever learn from this trial," so the only possibility is that she would be healed.

In this way the Lord shifted her from despair to the expectation of being healed. She knew Scripture taught about the prayer of faith. Darcy felt she could not receive a prayer of faith in the church we were associated with. So she searched the yellow pages and felt led to call a local pastor of a denomination she knew believed in God's healing power for today. When the pastor left our home after praying for us Darcy was shaken as she heard the words "I have forgiven them and you need to." She knew who the Lord was referring to. She tried to forgive, but found herself trapped in anger which became worse rather than better. In 1996 our church underwent a radical theological shift that took them from being considered a cult, to being offically accepted by the Evangelical Council of Churches. We just had our theology thrown in a blender and spit out at us.

It was during this period that our church newspaper, the Worldwide News reported on a special service that our church conducted for Darcy. We always maintained agreement with the core of these changes, which lead us away from legalism and toward a greater grace. If you are interested, I have an article which I wrote at the time regarding the Sabbath Rest and the new revelation I received on it at the time.

"Rise and Walk"

This same year we began to hear about a ministry that claimed it was God's will to heal people who suffered MCS/EI. I was upset since I personally viewed it as a threat to what we were trying to accomplish. I wanted people to hold on to their faith, but if they trusted God on this level, and He did not come through -- which I did not believe He promised to -- people would cast off their faith. Dianne called Darcy one day in August, with the name and phone number for that ministry. Since a growing number of readers were asking our opinion of it, we felt the need to call and get the information straight from the horse's mouth, so to speak.

Darcy called and left a message. Immediately following an outdoor Bible study with our church friends, Darcy was led to ask for prayer regarding her healing. We did this. Within a minute of saying "amen" the phone rang. I raced around the house to scoop up the phone. It was the pastor of that ministry. Being the spiritual head of my home, I said, "Wait a minute and I'll get my wife Darcy for you!" Darcy told him, "I was not calling to receive help, I just want some information on your ministry." The pastor said, "You know God wants t

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