Miracle or no miracle-- what to think?

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Christ beat you to it: Luke 13:4: Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem?

And in Matthew 5:45: [God] maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
 
To revisit this: Twelve years. One aggressive lymphoma three times. Another aggressive lymphoma once. Close to 100 tumors in my lymphatic system, spleen, small intestine and bone marrow. A separate marrow cancer (MDS - precursor to Acute Myeloid Leukemia) once. All three simultaneously. Stage IV twice. My chance of being alive today, rounded off from 1% is zero. Maybe less than zero. I have received the Sacrament of Anointing too many times to remember.

Miracle?

You decide.
 
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Yours and @Eric_Hyom’s lives have been amazing!

Thank you both for sharing.
 
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Annie said:
Maybe I think there should be acknowledgement of the prayers there that are not answered in the way someone wanted?
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I would think the acknowledgment would just be “Thy will be done, Lord”.

The fact that the Lord’s will sometimes means grave difficulties for humans is something that humans have a very hard time accepting and even trying to understand. I think it’s a question that a person could easily spend his whole life wrestling with, and many do.
 
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po18guy said:
Close to 100 tumors in my lymphatic system, spleen, small intestine and bone marrow. A separate marrow cancer (MDS - precursor to Acute Myeloid Leukemia) once. All three simultaneously .
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You are ahead of us po! I have never needed any surgery or hospitalization and live in fear and trembling of such. Even walking into a hospital to visit someone I find so depressing, the atmosphere feels so painful it just drains me emotionally. Most of the time I think God has spared me because He knows such suffering would break me completely in a short time.
 
When someone prays and asks God for a new job, and they get a new job, it’s appropriate to say Thank You. Nothing wrong with that.
 
The truly hard part was abandoning myself to God’s grace. Quite a struggle. Still is.

But, once one is able to do that, everything becomes much easier.
 
Yes, of course.

Maybe that is what is bothering me. Maybe I felt like the people were sort of showing off how well their prayers worked and also making such a big fuss. You know what I mean? Like if I got a computer for Christmas and my brother only got handkerchiefs, and I went on and on about the computer?
 
I believe miracles are more for the benefit of the witnesses than the recipient. Death is a mere inconvenience for those in a state of grace. I have seen miracles myself, unambiguous things that absolutely could not be attributed to random chance, coincidence, or science. I am grateful to God for them (even if it helped others, not me) yet a person who spontaneously comes back to life after a cardiac event is still going to die someday. It shows God’s power and existence in fact; people who have seen things like this and still are not convinced, no proof will ever be sufficient. At judgment they won’t be able to tell God “but wait, you never even gave me a sign, this isn’t fair!” And no doubt there areamy people who are converted by miracles (Saint Paul, Emperor Constantine, the Germans of Saint Boniface, etc).

Heaven permanently fixes all of these problems that miracles do temporarily anyway, I don’t think anyone in Heaven really cares that they didn’t get a miraculous intervention to keep themselves alive for a few more years.
 
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Like if I got a computer for Christmas and my brother only got handkerchiefs, and I went on and on about the computer?
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I see what you’re saying.
Jesus heals someone, he says ‘don’t tell anyone’ and they run and broadcast it to everyone! lol That’s what joy does! lol

Sometimes it’s hard to say, “I’m so happy for you!” Especially when we’re struggling.
 
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Sometimes it’s hard to say, “I’m so happy for you!” Especially when we’re struggling.
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Oh, that’s embarrassing 😳 This might reflect certain issues I have been struggling with in my spiritual life. Argh! I hate it when that happens 😉
 
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