DR. MARC SIEGEL: What I admire most about Shannon Bream’s powerful stories of faith and healing

In her caller bestselling book, "Nothing Is Impossible with God," Fox News anchor, lawyer and writer Shannon Bream tells the communicative of 11 heroes of the Bible, including 2 of everyone’s favorites: Joseph and Moses.

But she begins the publication with a communicative of her own, overcoming, astatine the property of 39, severe, persistent oculus symptom that was causing her to go rather depressed. With her anticipation petering out, connection boards led her to question retired 1 past cornea specialist, Dr. Thomas Clinch of Eye Doctors of Washington.

The information that she lone got successful to spot him close distant due to the fact that helium had a cancellation was different motion from God. Indeed, Clinch was himself 1 of God’s messengers, arsenic helium diagnosed her with a information different doctors had missed: map-dot-fingerprint dystrophy, besides known arsenic Cogan’s dystrophy. This information involves tiny erosive scratches connected the aboveground of the cornea. The outer cornea sticks to the little layers and begins to hitch off, particularly during heavy sleep. Clinch’s attraction was Muro 128 ointment to usage astatine night, oculus drops, and teardrop duct plugs to assistance her eyes clasp moisture.

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Shannon Bream is 1 of the kindest, astir sincere, humble yet intelligent anchors, authors and lawyers you could ever meet. Her gratitude to God for her reclaimed beingness pursuing her palmy attraction is palpable. It besides leads straight to the stories of this important book, wherever her beardown religion motivates her to question and research the biblical heroes who animate her the most.

Shannon Bream anchors "FOX News Sunday" connected Fox News Channel. (Paul Morigi/Getty Images)

She has an important instrumentality connected Moses, a communicative that began "with a bold, brave parent who defied the instrumentality of the time requiring each Hebrew antheral babies to beryllium thrown into the Nile River — a definite death."

Of course, Moses’s parent and the midwives didn’t comply. He was hidden and past placed successful a basket, which Pharaoh’s girl famously found, and helium went connected to go her adopted son. But arsenic Bream points out, helium ne'er mislaid the nexus to his ain people, sidesplitting an Egyptian for beating a Hebrew.

When Pharaoh learned of this, helium tried to termination Moses, who became a fugitive. Shannon’s investigation of Moses’s beingness is filled with insight: "Moses was faithful, moving for his father-in-law arsenic a shepherd. We spot nary grumbling astir however large beingness utilized to beryllium astatine the palace, nary daydreaming astir going backmost to the beingness of a prince — conscionable the methodical enactment of a dutiful man. God tin and volition amusement up whenever you are laboring, whether oregon not you deliberation anyone other is alert of your diligence."

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Here, Bream is referring to the burning bush, and arsenic she does passim the book, she quotes from the Bible: "God called to him from wrong the bush, ‘Moses! Moses!’ And Moses said, ‘Here I am.’" (Exodus 3:1-4)

"I americium astir 100 percent definite I would not person had specified a calm reaction," Bream writes, combining her idiosyncratic irony with a reverence for scripture, arsenic she does passim the book. She does it again with the Exodus itself, writing: "But the Lord had a program that wouldn’t look similar immoderate different rebellion successful history. It would commencement with what immoderate strategist would archer you is simply a unspeakable mistake — letting your force cognize you’re coming."

Indeed, arsenic God told Moses: "So now, go. I americium sending you to Pharaoh to bring my radical the Israelites retired of Egypt." (Exodus 3:10)

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When it comes to her section connected Joseph successful Genesis, Bream again personalizes a conception of the Bible. When his brothers (who kidnapped him and sold him into slavery) came to sojourn Egypt to get atom successful the legendary famine, they didn’t admit him.

Bream describes Joseph’s weeping due to the fact that helium understood what his brothers were saying successful Hebrew, of course, contempt his amusement of utilizing an interpreter and speaking Egyptian arsenic his superior connection to sphere his disguise. And contempt Joseph’s mistrust and hurt, helium inactive treated them with hesed (loving kindness). But their ain blameworthy consciences made Joseph’s kindness look sinister to them.

And quoting Genesis 42:28 — "Their hearts sank, and they turned to each other, trembling, and said, ‘What is this that God has done to us?’"

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Above all, Shannon Bream preserves the consciousness of the Bible arsenic the large communicative it is, filled with inspirational heroes, leaders and prophets.

Her ain beingness of overcoming makes her the cleanable idiosyncratic to constitute this compelling book.

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