Archive for November, 2008
My Doctor Was an Angel
It was May, 1995, and 44-year-old Denise lay in the recovery room at Yale University Hospital in New Haven, Connecticut. She had been very ill with throat cancer for over a year. Radiation hadn’t worked, and surgery had been her only option. Now her larynx and lymph nodes had been removed, to halt the disease’s [...]
Multiplication Miracle
For those of you who doubt that mini-miracles take place today, please consider the feedback below regarding a request I made a few weeks ago. A subscriber to this list, Robin Franzen, just “happened” to be in the Cedarburg, Wisconsin area (a nine-hour drive from her home) for a job interview, and just “happened” to [...]
Motorcycle Man
Brian Stack, a former full-time police officer (he’s part-time now). was on duty one night, riding his motorcycle, when he spotted a car whose driver committed a minor traffic offense. There were two men in the car. Brian turned on his siren and his red-and-blue lights, but unlike the routine stop he’d expected, the car [...]
Monarch in the House
Two months after twenty-one-year-old Desiree Revel passed away, her mother bought a small townhouse. It took a few weeks for her to unpack and organize everything in her new home. “I was living alone now, yet it was important to me that I set up Desi’s things in a special room,” Virginia Revel says. “I [...]
Miracles All Around
“I had to share something with you,” Willow Hale, a subscriber to our newsletter, wrote to me. “Wednesday night, February 2nd, I was in a car accident, my first in 14 years. As I drove down the street someone made a left turn into me right into the driver’s side. Even the mechanic today said [...]
Mike’s Angel
Forty-year-old Michael was disappointed in his life. Despite the affection of his mother and his two sisters, Mike felt like he didn’t belong anywhere. One winter he left his northern Ohio neighborhood in search of himself, and ended up working construction in Florida. “We all worried about him,” his sister Barbara says. “Mike lived poorly, [...]
Messenger for Mary Beth
Mary Beth Cole had completed her training as a long distance truck driver, and was on a trip with her husband, Wayne. “Think you can take over for awhile?” Wayne asked, yawning. “I need some rest.” “Sure.” Mary Beth’s only fear was driving in the rain. But on this wintry day, weather conditions on the [...]
Merry-go-Round Miracle
Mary B., a Pennsylvanian, met Peta online about five years ago. Peta, a resident of Australia, had published an inspirational story titled “I Can,” and when Mary came across it while surfing the Net, she was so moved that she got in touch. The two became good email friends. Peta’s story was truly amazing: she [...]
Meat Delivery
Ilene Cederquist’s husband had been out of work for weeks, and with five young children to feed, life was hard. “It seemed ages since we had had meat,” Ilene recalls. “But it was too expensive.” How she longed for a beef roast or hamburgers. Ilene’s husband searched for work each day, but he was too [...]
MaryAnne’s Migraine
If any of you have ever suffered from migraine headaches, you will sympathize with MaryAnne Rodrigues of Bombay, India, who experienced them frequently. “They usually started in the mornings at work,” she says. “I would have to leave the office immediately and come home, as I couldn’t bear light or noise, or concentrate on what [...]
