When something horrible happens, your first thought, no matter what your faith is, is to pray. Each Sunday at 10p, TLC’s Answered Prayers tells the stories of people’s prayers who were answered in their most desperate time of need.
In tonight’s season premiere, it is a beautiful day in Henryville, Indiana, but the meteorologists are predicting a huge storm. The Gilles family start their day off normally and send their three kids to school and the husband goes to work. Then when he feels the storm is coming, he calls his wife and says let’s prepare for it. She thinks he is crazy because the sun is shining. She eventually gives in and picks up her kids from the school bus they were riding home on. When they get home, she grabs all the blankets in the house, the kids’ bicycle helmets and locks all 4 of them in the closet. Her husband comes home just as the E4 tornado comes barreling towards their house. The 5 of then huddle together as the tornado lifts their home and catapults them the distance of 3 football fields. When they are finally back on the ground they are scattered all over the place and the parents are injured. How will they find their three kids amongst all of the debris. Just when it seems it can’t get any worse, the sky darkens and another tornado comes their way. Will anyone rescue them before it is too late? All they have to go on in prayer, but is that enough?
Then in Florida a father mows the lawn on a lawnmower as his son rides bike near him. When the dad puts the lawnmower in reverse, he didn’t realize his 3 year old son got off the bike and it right behind him. Then he feels a bump and sees his son’s leg under the machine. He lifts it up off his boy and carries him to a neighbor who is a nurse. The father is devastated and can’t stop feeling guilty over what he did. The doctors tell him son will be OK, but they are not sure they can save his leg. Eventually they do, but his leg will never function like a normal one. After 4 years of pain and countless surgeries, 7 year old Jake tells his parents he wants his bad leg amputated. The father feels awful and now Jake’s parents have to decide if amputation is the right thing to do. The night before the surgery, his parents pray for a sign that they are making the right choice. As they are driving to the hospital, they get that sign. A sign that could only come from Gd. What it is, you will have to tune in to see.
Answered Prayers is told by the people who lived the life changing events, visualized with reenactments and Roma Downey narrates the segments. No matter what your faith, Answered Prayers is the perfect show to end your weekend with. When it is done, it will make you want to hug your loved ones a little tighter and tell them how much you love them. How many shows cause that reaction?
