Have you experienced a Miracle

[peggyfromwastate]

Anyway, last summer when I was in Hawaii my mom was watching my four little angels. There was a big family dinner, and Izzy and Luke left the party and went to play outside by the pool. You know where this is going! Luke rode a big wheel straight through the gate that never latches properly and into the pool. Izzy ran to the house to get help right away (a miracle in and of itself) and by the time someone understood her, it had been about 2 or 3 minutes at least b/c the pool is kind of far away from the dining room. So my M&D came running down to the pool, and they saw Luke floating on top of the water completely still on his back. He had not even a drop of water on his face! My dad jumped in the pool to get him out, and checked him over (Dad was an ER doc for 25+ years), and Luke was just fine. No water in lungs or anything.

Now, when we go to the pool, Luke won't even let me put him on his back to practice back floats at all. (Last summer he didn't know how to float or swim, either- he was barely 2). He does fine with his belly and everything else, but being on his back really freaks him out...

Do you have any miracles?

[DCJenn]

Wow!

My friend is a huge believer in milagros which are small tokens that represent different things- like a heart can be a literal heart or affairs of the heart, a hand can be friendship or a real hand. The Mexican and Mexican-American Catholics take them and put them under the candles in churches.

When my friend came here the first time she was tired of being single and we bought a heart and took it to San Fernando Cathedral. She prayed that she would meet a man she could marry. Two months later, she did. then her daughter was born and during the birth she was stuck and in the process she had nerve damage in her right arm. (Erb's Palsy). So, I went to the South American/Mexican arts store in DC and found a right arm. She took it to Trinity in Georgetown and bam- Patricia started having movement in her arm. and finally, after developing a blood clot from her ankle to her abdomen after a C-section with her son, she asked me to find her a leg. I found her a left leg and I threw in a heart as well. She had her husband take them to the chapel in the hospital and shortly thereafter, her leg finally started to improve. (she had a size 18 left leg and a size 8 right leg)

So, she's a believer.

jenn

[DCJenn]

and at this point since I had planned to be AT work an hour ago and I'm still not showered, it will be a miracle if i don't get fired.

Jenn

[peggyfromwastate]

keep us posted Jenn!

[DCJenn]

I'm sure that's the one!

Jenn

[Cumberland]

I posted about this a while back, but I was following too closely on the interstate, and the car in front stepped on the brakes. I was six months pg with my 2 yo in the back. I was going at least 70mph, and spun in several circles over a bridge before coming to a stop facing the wrong direction.

The car that hit the brakes was black, and the car behind me that was able to come to a complete stop and be out of my way was white.

Although I am not a churchgoer, a day or so later I heard the song "Jesus take the Wheel' by Carrie Underwood- it pretty much describes what happened.

I am very grateful that someone or something was looking out for us.

One happened today with my sister. She and her toddler were at the store with our mom. When they were finished shopping and checked out, my mom told my sister she wanted to show her little boy some big truck so to go on out to the car and she'd meet her there in a couple minutes. So my sister gets to my mom's car and this old beat up car pulls up next to her. Behind the wheel is this frazzled woman with her little girl in the back seat. The woman was shaking and about to cry. She asked my sister if she had any money because she needed to get to this food bank that was still a few miles away and she pointed to her gas gage and said, "I don't think I'll make it there because I have no gas and no money." This poor mother was driving this old car that was all the way on "empty" and she was nearly crying and shaking and her daughter looked like she might cry as well. My sister only had a $20 bill on her and she handed it to the woman. The woman thanked her over and over again and drove away just as my mom was coming out of the store with my sister's little boy. She told my mom what had happened. My mom offered to give my sister money from her own purse since she had given the woman the only cash she had on her. My sister said, "No, mom, I think this was my test."

[Rapunzel]

Oh, I have most definitely witnessed complete miracles. But, they are, for the most part, too near and dear to my heart to casually relate. Two of my children, in particular, are only alive and healthy today because of seperate series of miraculous events. My mother is only alive today after being hit by a drunk driver by a complete miracle as well. Her story was incredibly touching as it involves serious divine intervention.

I'm sorry I can't be more specific. However, needless to say, I do believe in miracles.