One of the mega-churches in my area used to have these "Miracles Happen" bumper stickers.

I'm one of those crazy believers. Are you? Do you have a miracle story of answered prayer? Did the phone ring or the check appear in the mail, etc?

Share your testimony please....

Being a Cecil B. DeMille fan, I really enjoyed finding out how there is a 900 foot land bridge in the Gulf of Aqaba complete with Ramses dynasty chariot wheels and human and horse remains encrusted by 2500 years of coral! What fun!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracles

Maybe share some of these testimonies in the "Transformative Experiences" forum?

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I, too, believe in miracles -- even the large "whiz-bang" kind like Christ walking on the water, calming a storm, and raising the dead. Maybe some of this can be explained in a broader science . . . I don't know. In the end, the universe lies open before God's consciousness, and it will respond to God's initiatives.

The Master said that we would do even greater things
than He. If the faith level built up sufficiently,
we could see many hospital beds emptied through laying on of hands. Paul and Peter raised from the dead and God never changes, so it could happen today. The Dalai Lama mentioned 17 cases he knows of where bodies did not decompose after death for a period of time. Remember the poster agent
Mulder had in his office on the X-Files:

"I want to believe..."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphysical_levitation

Did the phone ring or the check appear in the mail, etc?

This reminds me of a time about 15 years ago when I did receive an unexpected check in the mail, and from an unlikely source. Money was tight, it was winter and I didn't have enough money to buy oil for the furnace. Really sad, huh?

At the time I was working on forgiveness of an uncle that had repeatedly sexually abused me as a child. I was receiving counseling and was allowing finally all the feelings to surface. I sought God's help in this process, praying for the ability to see this uncle through His eyes. I was sincere and wanted to be free of the anger that had consumed me for so long.

After a few months of this conscious effort at healing, I received a note from him in the mail with a check for $500. He had sold a small fishing boat and thought I might could use the money. The really strange part of the story is that we hadn't spoken or had any contact in over 20 years.

After this happened, I read somewhere that when one is working at forgiveness, the other person knows this at some level of their being.

This story has a really happy ending because the greatest miracle of all was how God brought my uncle and I together on his deathbed and there was nothing but Love in my heart. As I sat there with him, holding his hand, having not seen each other in over 20+ years, I kept hearing inwardly, "it is finished". I knew that God's grace was at work in ways I could not explain, something energetically was occurring. I could feel it. Not only was my heart filled with Light but the entire room was bathed with an angelic presence. Even nurses that walked in noticed and commented on the peace in the room. My uncle was unconscious at this time but the serenity on his face told me he was aware too of God's grace. This beautiful experience is actually what lead me to working and volunteering with hospice.

That is a bona-fide milagro indeed! Everything about that seems like someone I know, and would like to know better, as well as Tate and the likeminded whose tribe is increasing and multiplying.

check this out:

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10338a.htm
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14294b.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigmata

For some, the very idea of miracles is frightening.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_Design

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About your miracle of forgiveness, I would say that
it is the very imitation of Christ's forgiveness of
those that knew not what they were doing, otherwise,
the criminally insane.

Perhaps we can arrange nice padded cells for mad scientists someday!

Dear Katy, forgiveness and being able to see your uncle through God's eyes is one of His greatest graces. You both were released from the pain and trauma of his abuses of you by your open, loving and compassionate heart.

Most likely your uncle himself was abused as a child, and may not even have retained a memory of it. Many abusers are victims themselves. In my counselling I find that what people do to others , often was done to them as well. I disagree with MM that everyone who abuses is criminally insane. It's more like a vicious cycle that has a beginning, continues until the power of love puts an end to it.

What a gift for your uncle and you to be free, and the blessing of how this led you to your work with hospice.

Your story has touched me deeply. Much love and blessings to you. Whenever love and forgiveness triumph there is a slight shift in the balance of power in the world, a lifting of all humanity into the light.

A discussion of amateur archeologist Ron Wyatt and his discoveries, Noah's Ark (which was in Life Magazine way back in 1960, The Ark of the Covenant (believed to be in Ethiopia,) Pharaoh's Chariots (my personal favorite,) and Sodom and Gomorrah (golf ball sized sulfer stones found nowhere else in the world.) Some bloggers kick it around for about 125 posts:

http://www.freerepublic.com/fo...15/posts?q=1&&page=1

Miracles come in all shapes and sizes. It's a miracle that I can still mow the lawn with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. It's been 100 degrees the last couple of weeks and I requested some help mowing the lawn. A large cloud passed over the sun just long enough to block the heat. The maintenance man stopped by to chat and he hasn't had a drink for twenty years, which is also a miracle, at least for guys like us it is.(He's a latino
anti-immigrationist conservative, BTW) Miracle?

I don't know if Tibetan Lamas can really start hail storms or medicine men and shamans can bring the rain, or if English Theosophists can disburse
clouds, but I am nevertheless great-full.

Yes, MM, I agree miracles come in all shapes and sizes.

To contemplate that I exist, live, breathe and have my being in God just blows my mind. One moment in time, we just appear and we don't know how this happens.

All of nature is such a miracle to me. This morning taking a walk with my friend, a 13 year old black lab, seeing a deer only a few feet away, listening to the birds and watching the squirrels scamper...and loving it all. This Love coming from within me, looking out at creation -- what a miracle this gift of Love!

Tate, you are a miracle, and we love you!

This one might just about bless your sox off, even if you're wearing sock supenders!

http://www.beliefnet.com/story/140/story_14035_1.html

Thank you, MM for your kind words and the inspiring story of Francis. Truly, I am Loved, blessed and now bare-footed.

Why doesn't Sixty Minutes have the truck out there with the cameras? This is news. It seems genuine to me. Father Robert J. Fox wrote a book about him, but I can't find it. I believe that the world ignores alot of this because they are just not tuned into it
and have been trained to think skeptically and rationally for generations. He heals cancer!

http://www.beliefnet.com/story/140/story_14034_1.html

Over 500 stigmatists and they are still wearing shoes!

barefoot.com

Why doesn't Sixty Minutes have the truck out there with the cameras?

Good question, MM. Probably two reasons:

1) They know, from their own biased reporting, how easy it is to distort facts, promote agendas, or to create realities that don�t exist.

2) It is often hard to tell the difference between honest, sincere people of faith and cranks, shysters, hustlers, manipulators and people who are just a bit co-dependently mentally whacked as a group�to the point where an entire family could easily act out the desires, say, of one mother or father.

And so when you put 1 and 2 together in an environment of people who consider themselves very "serious" and "professional" and who, because they are often the biggest scammers, are therefore more likely to assume the same in others, they don�t have much motivation to cover something like this. And probably just as important a reason is the cocktail party factor: Will one appear to be silly and frivolous to one�s peers if they were to cover such a story? This factor should not be overlooked for it is often the #1 motivation for something to be covered or not covered by investigative journalists (and this reason covers most other walks of life as well).

But this is a remarkable story. IF TRUE it has profound implications. Perhaps that�s another reason to stay away from it. But personally, I don�t know what to think. I have no wish to diminish what God can do, but human beings aren�t always so discerning as to what they call a miracle. But then, maybe everything is a miracle.

Yes, the sad state of the media. Gonna have to get to them somehow...

David Hawkins says that half of the worlds spirutual teachers calibrate below the level of integrity. That is also very sad, and I would not dispute that figure. Hope I do not become one of them, you see, I have this evil twin.

This cannot be disputed. (although a few have tried)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padre_Pio

http://www.padrepio.net/

http://www.ewtn.com/padrepio/

http://www.padrepio.com/

http://www.padrepio.org/intro.asp

This site gave me chills and goosebumps and the
"Special K" became very active.

http://members.aol.com/goodyburk/padrepio.html

Yes, it is indisputable that miracles happen!

The shrine at Lourdes, France (site of one of the Marian apparitions) is famous for its many miracles. Two outstanding such are recounted here. There are many other sites with accounts.

As some of you no doubt know, for the Catholic Church to canonize someone a Saint, there must be at least two confirmed miracles attributed to that Saints's intercession. Accounts of such can be found on various web sites. See this one for more info on how the process of canonization works.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wor...uth_asia/2775461.stm

She seems unhappy about current events.

"In Dallas something incredible (even from my viewpoint) occurred. The water in the Fairmont Hotel
was cut off due to a break in the water main. Water was gushing out onto the street. I suggested to my crowd that we do a meditation visualizing the water backing up so that the workers could find the break.
Right after that collective visualization the electric power went out. I had no microphone, the air conditioner shut down, and there were no lights.
Since I was running late anyway, I brought the day's seminar to a close and went outside to see what was wrong. On the street in front of the hotel the workers said, "The strangest thing just happened. The water out here suddenly stopped flowing, then it backed up until it covered the electric transformer, which caused the power blackout." I nodded and said it was all too bad.
To me this was an example of the power of collective visualization. I was careful, after that, about how I used it."

--Shirley MacLaine, Going Within, A guide for Inner Transformation

(Well, at least the transformer got transformed I'd say!)