Carol Ann Miller, a twelve-year-old girl in Oxon Hill, Maryland, had a heart ailment which required specialized, dangerous surgery. A rare type of blood — B-negative — was needed for transfusion before the surgeons would attempt the operation.
I’ll write to President Eisenhower, and ask him to help me get the needed blood, thought Carol Ann. So she wrote:
“My Dear President:
The surgeons want to close up a hole in my heart. If you know anyone who has B-negative blood, please call my mother. It is very important!
The girl’s plea deeply touched the president. Immediately he had the Red Cross contacted, and also the doctors in Walter Reed Hospital. Soon twenty pints of the required blood were made available to Carol Ann’s surgeons.
In a similar way, today the blood of Jesus is available to wash our sins away. We are all born with the disease of sin. But there is a remedy! “The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin” (1 John 1:77But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. (1 John 1:7)).