It's A Miracle

S02:E04 - 204: Popsicle the Drug Dog; Ministry Mentor; Protective Angel; Heart From a Friend

Popsicle the Drug Dog During an arrest at a drug dealerÍs home, a policeman named Ron made a startling discovery. For a reason he still cannot explain, Ron had an impulse to open an abandoned freezer on the property. Inside, he found a bulging black trash bag. When he poked at it, it began to move. Horrified that he might have just found a baby inside, Clark immediately opened the bag and discovered a scrawny, blood-caked, skin-and-bones pit bull puppy. The puppy has since been named Popsicle. After his rescue, Popsicle was nursed back to health, and he has ironically gone on to become a decorated drug-sniffing dog working for the United States Customs Office. Years later, Popsicle helped the feds seize more than 3,000 pounds of cocaine, which at that time was the biggest drug bust ever recorded at a port of entry. Ministry Mentor Bill has a busy schedule, yet heÍs found time over the past several years to devote Saturday mornings to working with troubled teenagers at a detention camp. Many of these teens are felons who serve time at the detention camp for several months before being released from custody. Volunteers here are the last, and probably best chance the system has to convince these young adults to start on a new course in life, rather than revisit the lives they used to lead. A twenty-year-old gang-banger named Jose is a former detainee whose life was turned around with BillÍs support and undying persistence. Bill simply refused to let Jose fall back into his former violent lifestyle. Today, Jose is married with two beautiful young children, and their future is bright. His life couldnÍt be more different than it had been thanks in large part to BillÍs inspiring will to get involved. Protective Angel Karen thanks God every day for the life of her daughter, Katie. On the evening of September 26, 1996, when Katie was two-and-a-half years old, she was run over by the family station wagon that was being driven by her father. Remarkably, Katie survived the incident by only a few minor abrasions. Out of the blue that day, and prior to the incident, Katie had asked her mother to say prayers with her at nap-time, and asked God to send angels to watch over her. (This was unusual because her father had always said prayers with Katie at night, but Katie never initiated them herself, nor had she ever asked to pray at nap-time before.). Karen believes those prayers were directly answered that evening when the car was directly on top of Katie, and did not do any damage. Heart from a Friend Rodney, at thirty-six years of age, was in top physical condition, and he was an athlete, but, things changed drastically within a matter of months after Rodney caught, what he thought at the time, was just the flu. After the flu dissipated, Rodney began to notice that he tired easily, and soon it was too hard to even get off the couch to go to the mailbox. Finally, RodneyÍs wife insisted her husband pay a visit to a doctor. His doctor then sent Rodney to a cardiologist. The news was extremely bad. The cardiologist told Rodney that a virus had attacked his heart, and that there was nothing the doctor could do for him. His only hope, the cardiologist explained, was to have a heart transplant, and that he had only six months to a year to live. But, after the horrible news was presented to him, a series of miraculous events were about to take place that would bring two families together in a way that bonded them forever.