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Thank you for your story, IesusDeus. May it strengthen some who are weary of their journey.
I knew God was with me and protecting me and my family.My family of four was heading home across our state through a small town in the Adirondacks. It was a pokey little town but there was an intersection with a light and it was green for us to go… As we passed slowly through the intersection I could see very clearly that a car was going to have impact with our vehicle. My husband was driving. I was a front seat passenger. My two children sat in back. The vehicle was supposed to hit my car door. It was right there! There should have been an impact. I could see the car’s front bumper right there and I was expecting a crunch and jolt. It all happened so suddenly that I had no time to even gasp with my breath to warn my husband. Yet I looked forward and saw directly in front of me at the end of the hood of our vehicle a white bird which then ascended up out of my view. I then looked to my side and realized we had passed through the intersection safely. There was no sound. I asked my husband and children if they realized what almost happened and not one of them saw a car almost hit our car. They didn’t see a white bird either.
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And teach the rest of us the true meaning of being a Catholic Christian.My best friend is “intellectually challenged”. She nursed her overweight mother for years with no help from her three sisters. She saw her mother die of a heart attack and a few years later she came home to find her father also dead of a heart attack. In exchange for her years of service it was promised that she would inherit the house which was very small but sufficient for her needs. Unfortunately, she trusted her eldest sister and disclosed to her the whereabouts of the will. The will mysteriously disappeared and the estate went into dispute. The devious sister while she still had my friend’s trust had full access to the home for three weeks while she stole everything of worth. What she couldn’t take she destroyed; I mean right down to destroying the stove burner wires with oven-cleaner and removing the hinges off of the refrigerator. When I finally was allowed access to my friend who had been ensconced in her evil sister’s apartment and brought her home the shock of witnessing the destruction was devastating. Nonetheless, my friend refused to lay charges with the police. For three years she struggled valiantly to win the right to stay in her home. During this time she continued to be so tormented by her sister that she closed herself off from the world and sat in the dark. Years passed and I persuaded my friend to be baptized and to become a Catholic as we would be a family who would love her. She learned to pray the rosary and she began to read the bible as difficult as both tasks were. Five years passed before she finally understood that in order to have peace and to live a Christian life she had to forgive her sister. The miracle is she did. She forgave her sister everything. The sad part is her sister again violated her trust and went back to her old ways of lying and stealing. It was a hard lesson to learn that forgiveness doesn’t mean you ever have to trust someone again. The point of forgiving is the healing of one’s own soul and my friend has certainly passed the test. She is generous beyond measure. I’m only sorry her sister squandered that second chance to hurt her again. Nonetheless, that her act of forgiveness was a miracle and she continues to pray for the conversion of her sister.
I just happened to locate a DVD with the story of the young priest whose witness changed the life of my cousin’s brother-in-law. His name is Donald Calloway, “No Turning Back: Confessions of a Catholic Priest” is available at the following website.So the elder brother convinced the younger, troubled brother, to watch this ex-addict, now an ordained priest, give his testimony: the effects of which were so powerful, he immediately dropped to his knees and begged Jesus for forgiveness. Like that he was healed.