Have you ever witnessed or experienced a miracle?

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Wasn’t really sure where to put this, but the question is in the title. I’ll be interested to read your responses. I myself have not, or not that I know of, but I hope someday I can.
 
I feel I have experienced an ongoing miracle with my grandmother’s health. She is suffering from stage iv colon cancer. On her initial diagnosis she was given eighteen months with treatment, even less without. She decided to fight and everytime things seemed grim, when she’d get bad news, somehow some way things would turn around and she’d pull through. Here we are five years later and she’s still with us. Granted we all understand it’s terminal and it will kill her. Her battle is going less favorably now then it has in the past and we fear she is nearing her end but there is no doubt in any one of our minds that she didn’t get this far alone. She has been getting a helping hand more than once and for that we are all truly grateful. I know it’s not exactly turning water to wine and it couldn’t have succeeded without her doctors, God Bless them, but it is certainly a miracle to all of us (including some of her doctors-imagine that).
 
PumpkinSeed said:
Well I didn’t think an atheist would 😉
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👍 (LOL)

For the most part I would agree with your assessment. There are some fringe cases (exceptions) but I think those are of such low frequency I think we can ignore them for the general case.

Glad to see we can have agreements!
 
It depends on how you define “miracle.”

If by “miracle” you mean “an event that defies or suspends the regular workings of the laws of the universe,” then I would argue that not only have I personally never seen that, it is practically impossible for such an event to occur.

As a serious question, how would a person determine that something he or she saw was actually a miracle? I’m certain that people encounter experiences that they can’t explain, but there’s quite a large gap between “I can’t explain it” and “It was a miracle!”

How exactly does one demonstrate to oneself that an experience is actually a miracle and not just some normal, natural working of the universe that one didn’t understand.
 
wcknight said:
yes, 3 times, the birth of my 3 kids !!!
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Doh! You beat me to the punch. That was going to be my response, too. The miracle of the birth of my children shakes me to my core to this very day some 20 plus years later. Amen. Amen. Amen.
 
Yes, several The first one, my Mother was in a TB sanitorium in the 1940s for 2 yrs and was to have her lung removed because the TB wasn`t healing since she was allergic to Streptomycin and that was the only med. available at the time. Many prayers were going up for her. She was on the operating table and the Dr. was about to make the incision when he decided to take another XRay of her lung. Praise God the lung was totally healed!!!. She had to spend 3 more months there to make sure the sputum tests were still negative for TB.

My husband had been healed of hay fever before we were married. He had gone to a healing service of Kathryn Kuhlman1s ( I know she was not a Catholic ) but anyway he was healed. So after we were married for a year or so he seemed to be getting it back. Then he broke down and told me about the healing, and said since we were married he had broken his promise to God to fast every Friday, no food until supper time, I guess he thought I woulnt believe him. I told him he better keep his promise to God so he restarted fasting. and he hasnt had any symptoms since. We`ve been married for 50 yrs.BTW once a few yrs ago he had some bloood work done and the doctor said my goodness you really have a bad case of allergies. The antigens were still in his blood!!!

There have been a couple more but it would take too much space to post them now.
 
Yes. When I was about twenty years old (about twenty years ago), I and a few others at a local church were praying for particular things when one woman of about fifty years old simply prayed and asked the rest of us to pray for ‘teeth’. It struck us as being a rather quaint request, even a little funny after our prayers regarding “loftier” desires. None the less, we prayed for her and her teeth, a group of roughly eight of us. One of us in the group asked if she wouldn’t mind opening her mouth so that we would know what it was that we were praying for. It was obvious a soon as she did–most of her teeth were missing. But as she had her mouth open, and as I was standing literally six inches in front of her face, I watched as a molar punched through the back of her gums and grew into the top, left corner of her mouth. It took about ten minutes as I recall, and because we all saw it happen, we did not allow her to close her mouth the entire time. It was astounding and humbling all the same, and a reminder to all of us, especially me that we can ask God for anything while we pray–even the mundane stuff.
 
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Yes. When I was about twenty years old (about twenty years ago), I and a few others at a local church were praying for particular things when one woman of about fifty years old simply prayed and asked the rest of us to pray for ‘teeth’. It struck us as being a rather quaint request, even a little funny after our prayers regarding “loftier” desires. None the less, we prayed for her and her teeth, a group of roughly eight of us. One of us in the group asked if she wouldn’t mind opening her mouth so that we would know what it was that we were praying for. It was obvious a soon as she did–most of her teeth were missing. But as she had her mouth open, and as I was standing literally six inches in front of her face, I watched as a molar punched through the back of her gums and grew into the top, left corner of her mouth. It took about ten minutes as I recall, and because we all saw it happen, we did not allow her to close her mouth the entire time. It was astounding and humbling all the same, and a reminder to all of us, especially me that we can ask God for anything while we pray–even the mundane stuff.
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Thanks for the story. That is amazing.

I’ve had mystical experiences and I think that it is a miracle that I have faith. Faith is very hard for a skeptic to receive. I prayed for faith and God gave me faith. I wanted to believe but just couldn’t before I had my experiences.
 
My dad, aunt and I have been ongoingly trying to notice small miracles after a discussion we had about a year or so ago. Miracles do not have to be huge and obvious to be miracles.

I consider one of the biggest miracles in my life to be my conversion to Christianity and then Catholicism.

But from moments when God seems to give you the words to say, or makes a situation so much easier to someone randomly returning an object to you that you lost - whether you want to call it a grace, a gift from God, complete coincidence at a perfect time, I call them small miracles.
 
Yes, I believe I did witness one.

Many years ago, my pregnant wife was crossing a street in the downtown of a busy city and was struck head on by a speeding taxi. She was bounced in front of the vehicle several times before coming to a stop. I have no idea how she survived. Even more amazing, although she suffered cuts, scrapes and bruises, she had no broken bones or internal injuries. Despite being in the first trimester and having had one miscarriage already, she did not lose the baby. She spent about five days in the hospital and more time recovering at home. A little over six months later, our first child was born. I called her our miracle baby, our “golden child”. I truly believed that my wife and our baby lived for a reason, to fulfill a purpose, for there is no other reasonable explanation.

BTW, when she was struck by the taxi, my wife was crossing the street to visit a Cathedral.
 
PumpkinSeed said:
Wasn’t really sure where to put this, but the question is in the title. I’ll be interested to read your responses. I myself have not, or not that I know of, but I hope someday I can.
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I believe I have. Years ago, a friend of mine’s sister was hit by a car. She was in a coma for three - four weeks, without response to any stimulus. Finally, the consensus of the doctors decided that taking her off life support was the best option. Thus, they called in the family.

Most of the family, and some friends, was present, outside her room at the hospital, but, they were awaiting two more relatives that were on their way. While they were waiting, a Pastor, who was the Pastor of the Church where the accident occurred, was making his rounds through the wards. Recognizing that this was the young girl who was hit in front of his Church, and discovering that she was about to be put down, he asked the immediate family if he could go in and pray over her. Since they were waiting anyway, her mom said OK.

About 40 - 45 minutes into the praying, the Pastor came out of the room and told the mom that her daughter was sitting up and asking for her by name. She is still alive. Call it what you will, I call it a “miracle.” Prior to then, I was pretty well on my way to being a card-carrying atheist. From that point on, I began to change. This was 22 years ago.

God bless,
jd
 
JDaniel said:
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I believe I have. Years ago, a friend of mine’s sister was hit by a car. She was in a coma for three - four weeks, without response to any stimulus. Finally, the consensus of the doctors decided that taking her off life support was the best option. Thus, they called in the family.

Most of the family, and some friends, was present, outside her room at the hospital, but, they were awaiting two more relatives that were on their way. While they were waiting, a Pastor, who was the Pastor of the Church where the accident occurred, was making his rounds through the wards. Recognizing that this was the young girl who was hit in front of his Church, and discovering that she was about to be put down, he asked the immediate family if he could go in and pray over her. Since they were waiting anyway, her mom said OK.

About 40 - 45 minutes into the praying, the Pastor came out of the room and told the mom that her daughter was sitting up and asking for her by name. She is still alive. Call it what you will, I call it a “miracle.” Prior to then, I was pretty well on my way to being a card-carrying atheist. From that point on, I began to change. This was 22 years ago.

God bless,
jd
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Amazing. Sad how an atheist will see this and say ‘just a coincidence’. But us believers know it is something much more amazing than just ‘luck’.

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PumpkinSeed said:
Amazing. Sad how an atheist will see this and say ‘just a coincidence’. But us believers know it is something much more amazing than just ‘luck’.

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Yes it is. I posted this about a year or so ago, when someone else created a similar thread. I was treated to all sorts of scientistic possibilities for explanations. Oh, and by the way, the Pastor of which I speak, was a Baptist, not a Catholic. Although, my current Church, the Church of the Resurrection, is right across the street from said Baptist Church. She was hit almost directly in between the two Churches.

She was given up for dead. And, in mere moments, the hospital would have finished the job, had it not been for divine intervention.

God bless,
jd
 
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