Things that appeared to me that I believe are signs from God

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I just tried to upload some images here that I believe are signs from God. I had put the bandana there on the closet door handle to let it dry. I didn’t intend to make it look like anything. Later I noticed that it looked like an image of the Blessed Virgin Mary. (That was on November 22nd of this year)

The twig I found that resembles Jesus on the cross, I found on June 28th of this year.
 
Even if these are nothing more than coincidences, chance, or flukes of nature, the fact that you saw them can be most comforting.
 
I agree with the above posters. Signs are very personal and to another may not seem like much at all, it’s how you see them, what meaning they have for you personally.
God bless you on your journey.
 
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And I almost forgot about this one. Resembles a dove, made me think of the Holy Spirit
 
The Holy Spirit is not a bird or a cloud. Artistic representations and coincidental cloud formations are not inspired. It may be ok for some people, but I like to stick with scripture for inspiration.
 
I don’t know if these are coincidences, or it’s just the way we’re seeing these things, but I don’t think there’s any harm in them, At least it’s getting you to think about them.
 
I personally don’t believe in coincidences. ( I mean maybe many things don’t seem to matter in daily life, or have importance, but I believe in the sovereignty of God, so I can’t possibly know the difference, being only human) When I found the stick, I was talking to my best friend on the phone. She is an atheist and was saying something negative about Christianity. The very moment she said the word “Christianity”, I saw the stick on the sidewalk. Although I can’t remember what her comment was now… I was just overtaken by seeing the stick that resembled the crucifix. Coming from a protestant/evangelical background, it is significant to me because during that time I was investigating about the Catholic church. In the protestant churches, usually only a plain cross is used, whereas a crucifix, showing Jesus body is more representative of the Catholic church.

The day I put the bandana on the closet door handle was the first day I started praying the Rosary again… after having quit praying it for a time and even renouncing it because I thought I was committing idolatry. Seeing that bandana in that shape on that particular closet door handle gave me a lot of comfort. I felt Mary’s presence and slept like a baby that night. At times I get harrassed and attacked by demons in my dreams, but that night I had no fear and no attacks. I haven’t prayed the Rosary every single day since then, but nearly every day. My husband and I rent a room, and that is our only private space. My husband is anti-Catholic (even though he was born and raised Catholic, he is now evangelical, of a Charismatic tradition), so I can’t have any images on display (except one picture of Jesus that he just barely tolerates). I have to pray the Rosary in secret when he is not around. I don’t think he knows I have one.

Honestly the cloud formation I saw that day, nearly a year ago, just inspired me and gave me hope. That’s why I believe God can work in so many ways, although I think more often than not He uses other people… or angels.
 
I wouldn’t be shallow enough to say the crucifix meant nothing. I once found a saint Gertrude the Great prayer card on the ground. Use it, and build a holy Arsenal from which to pray for the intercession of saints for all you see that is wrong on our world. Let it be an inspiration.
 
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Thank you Leah! This story is awesome and inspiring! Keep up the faith! 🙂
 
Just as brotherly advice, I wouldn’t make it a habit to put the signs that God gives you up on CAF (or anywhere) for others to scrutinize. Most signs we receive are for us personally. They are akin to private revelation. The Holy Spirit guides your recognition and interpretation of such signs as is appropriate for you. Others might not see the same thing, or might even be skeptical, and you might be drawn into explaining and defending what you’ve seen, which will devalue the signs. I know it’s tempting to share little revelations (and big ones too), but really, there’s danger in it unless you know absolutely sure you are in the exclusive company of intimately kindred spirits.
 
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I personally don’t believe in coincidences
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Surely you can’t mean this. There are coincidences in your life every day. If you meet a random person with the same birthday as you would you not view this as a coincidence? The examples you gave are confirmation biased run amok.
 
Hi Roguish,

Yeah I can see your point, and this has often been the case. Thank you 🙂
 
Catholic tradition has long taught of God revealing himself through two “books”. The “Book of the Word” (Scripture and Christ) and the “Book of Nature” (nature/Creation). Inspired by Saint Francis, Saint Bonaventure dove into this in depth. Bonaventure, and I believe his contemporary, Aquinas, also taught that the two book inform eachother. In other words, God is as inseparable from nature as he is from Scripture.
 
I have an idea, although it may or may not work for you. If you could somehow get yourself a small cabinet where you could put your holy pictures and such you could let your husband know it is yours and just keep key. ??? Well, it was a thought.

I have a jewelry cabinet with hooks where I can hang necklaces and there are shelves. You could use yours for your rosary, prayer books, small holy cards, books. Mine isn’t very big, but they come in bigger sizes. (My daughter has three of them.)
 
Well, even the Scriptures show, some inspiration from God,he works in mysterious ways indeed

1 Kings 18: 43 He said to his servant, “Go up now, look toward the sea.” He went up and looked, and said, “There is nothing.” Then he said, “Go again seven times.” 44 At the seventh time he said, “Look, a little cloud no bigger than a person’s hand is rising out of the sea.” Then he said, “Go say to Ahab, ‘Harness your chariot and go down before the rain stops you.’” 45 In a little while the heavens grew black with clouds and wind; there was a heavy rain.
 
http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p2s2c4a1.htm

1667 "Holy Mother Church has, moreover, instituted sacramentals. These are sacred signs which bear a resemblance to the sacraments. They signify effects, particularly of a spiritual nature, which are obtained through the intercession of the Church. By them men are disposed to receive the chief effect of the sacraments, and various occasions in life are rendered holy."173

The characteristics of sacramentals

**[1668 Sacramentals are instituted for the sanctification of certain ministries of the Church, certain states of life, a great variety of circumstances in Christian life, and the use of many things helpful to man. In accordance with bishops’ pastoral decisions, they can also respond to the needs, culture, and special history of the Christian people of a particular region or time. They always include a prayer, often accompanied by a specific sign, such as the laying on of hands, the sign of the cross, or the sprinkling of holy water (which recalls Baptism).

**[1669 Sacramentals derive from the baptismal priesthood: every baptized person is called to be a “blessing,” and to bless.174 Hence lay people may preside at certain blessings; the more a blessing concerns ecclesial and sacramental life, the more is its administration reserved to the ordained ministry (bishops, priests, or deacons).175

*[1670 Sacramentals do not confer the grace of the Holy Spirit in the way that the sacraments do, but by the Church’s prayer, they prepare us to receive grace and dispose us to cooperate with it. "For well-disposed members of the faithful, the liturgy of the sacraments and sacramentals sanctifies almost every event of their lives with the divine grace which flows from the Paschal mystery of the Passion, Death, and Resurrection of Christ. From this source all sacraments and sacramentals draw their power. There is scarcely any proper use of material things which cannot be thus directed toward the sanctification of men and the praise of God."176
 
That was fun shares !
I suppose God is all about - wanting to catch our eye.
 
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