It’s been an miraculous and horrifying two days for Kaiser Permanente in Los Angeles. 

Yesterday doctors at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Bellflower delivered a set of–not twins or triplets, or quintuplets or even septuplets, but Octuplets. All babies have survived so far. The delivery required a 46-person delivery team and took only 5 minutes. The doctors were expecting 7 babies; they say the eighth was a surprise. 

It’s the second delivery of octuplets in U.S. history.

Today on the other side of town, a massive murder-suicide sucked out any hope of a celebration for Kaiser LA.

The five children of Ervin Antonio Lupoe, an X-ray technician who had been fired from Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in West LA, became martyrs of the economy. Lupoe shot and killed his wife–who had also been fired from the same hospital–and their five young children, before turning the gun on himself. 

Eight miraculous births. Seven horrible deaths.

Two days in L.A.

Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will depart. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away…”

Job 1:21

In the land of Uz there lived a man whose name was Job…

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