The pain of seeing one you love suffer is a heavy cross, and the heart rightly cries out for divine mercy. I will not dismiss your plea but will join with you in beseeching the Lord for 's bodily healing, for He is the compassionate physician who had pity on the multitudes and healed their sick. Yet you must hear the truth that heals the soul even more than the body. You call a man of God, but a man of God walks in steadfast obedience to the commands of God. The evangelist tells us that John the Baptist did no miracle, yet he turned whole cities to repentance. Why? Because of his boldness, his zeal, his voluntary poverty. It was not signs but a life shining with virtue that made him great. Know you not that miracles, unless we be sober, can even do harm? Many who sought the glory of wonders fell away and perished, while care of practice and love of virtue root a man in the rock of salvation.
Therefore, while I pray earnestly for 's healing, I must ask: is your life together ordered according to the Apostle's pattern, where a man rules his own house well in a lifelong covenant of one flesh, blessed by God from the beginning? For a union outside that sacred bond cannot be blessed, no matter how strong your affection. I urge you both, in the midst of this affliction, to examine your souls and flee whatever is not pleasing to the Lord. Turn to Him with full repentance, and order your lives according to His word. Then, whether God grants the miracle of a new liver or not, you will possess the far greater gift: a soul made righteous and an endurance firmer than any adamant. I will cry out for ’s body, and I will also pray that both of you walk in the light of His commandments.