But she kept praying.

Then one of her husband’s co-workers emailed Clay and said that God told him Aubrey was going to be healed. Vanessa Clark called the co-worker.

“I’ve been praying every day. I’ve been crying out to God. And God hasn’t spoken to me,” she told him. “So you really think he’s going to see?”

“No, I know he’s going to see,” he told her.

A week later, she was thrilled to notice that Aubrey appeared to be looking at a black and white shirt with sequins. She later moved a black and white shirt in front of him, and he moved his head to follow it.

Her husband didn’t believe anything had happened until Aubrey tried to grab a pen out of his hand while they were on vacation in Florida.

Back in Tulsa, they took him to the ophthalmologist, who confirmed that Aubrey had some vision but said he was still legally blind, and likely to lose what little vision he had, she said.

Aubrey was then 18 weeks old.

But that didn’t happen.