These are both wonderful examples of how our Lord reaches out to touch us. Thank you for sharing. While I haven’t had “similar” experiences, I have been blessed by other encounters with our Lord and our Mother Mary. I’ve also had experiences in which I’ve run into the, uh, other side.
I know many people who have been similarly blessed. Yet, when I start to share a little of these things with my family – beyond my wife and son – I get those “you’re wierd” looks. Most in my family are practicing Catholics and some have had experiences that are at least a little unexplainable (i.e., miraculous). Yet, if I relayed these stories to them, they’d roll their eyes. They, apparently, have not had such experiences.
I guess I’m wondering how many people – especially Catholics, since that is my background – have been touched by our Lord or our Mother Mary through nature, through sacramentals, through other people (e.g., people coming up to them, saying, 'The Lord wanted me to tell you something. . . '), etc. Growing up, I used to think that the “little old ladies” attending daily mass were there out of superstitious habit (and maybe some were), but, now being about ten years away from “little old” status myself, I now wonder how many of them were there every day because they couldn’t get enough of being with their Lord “in person” (i.e., the Eucharist). Kind of a rambling question/observation

, but I’m wondering if you have any thoughts about this. Thanks and God bless.
Dan