Miracles Still Happen
Story of the Week: 12/12/08
Hello, friends. Here’re some quick angel announcements, just to keep you going during this hectic season.
—Ta-Da! I’m announcing the opening of my BLOG. Same email address: http://joanwanderson.com but it is easier to get around the site, you can leave comments, and we’ll be posting the Story of the Week (if I can [...]
Signs of the Season
One evening during the summer of 1997, Debbie Cruikshank and her 13-year-old daughter, Rachel, were lying on the floor reading magazines. Debbie turned onto her stomach—and in that moment her entire life changed. “I could feel a sharp pain inside, like I had fallen on a rock,” she recalls. Within a month she was facing [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Mini Miracles
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” [...]
Heavenly Farmhands
The after-Christmas snowstorm had blanketed a wide patch of rural eastern Pennsylvania, and Chris Clark Davidson probably should have waited until the roads were plowed before she, her mother and her two small sons attempted a drive. But Chris’ grandmother lived alone more than 100 miles away and couldn’t get out to the store [...]
During All Those Days…
For several years, Cheryl McKinney had been trying to protect her precious granddaughter, Destina, from what Cheryl suspected was abuse from the adults in her home. “I was concerned about my grandson too, but Destina seemed to be the main target,” Cheryl says. Cheryl and her husband had repeatedly reported instances of abuse [...]
Do You Lose Things? Here’s Some Hope
When Barbara Zabielski’s mother died ten years ago, Barbara inherited her wedding ring. Eventually Barbara’s own rings became too small for her, and recently she began wearing her mother’s ring instead. One day she visited her doctor to get an injection in her hand, and she took off the ring while receiving the treatment. “I [...]
Diamond in the Rough
Phyllis and Jerry Grever were finishing up a vacation in Orlando, and had been dropped off at the airport about ten a.m. They were going to catch the 12:30 plane to Chicago and take a connector home to Philadelphia. Because they had time, they wandered through some of the airport stores, including a few jewelry [...]
Blessings in Blytheville, Arkansas
Members of the Gospel Lighthouse Church in Blytheville, Arkansas were preparing to serve Thanksgiving dinner to the needy in their area. “Fifteen or twenty families had brought our own turkey and trimmings to the church to share, and had made extra food,” explains Jeanne Templeton. Word had spread, and the volunteers expected a crowd. Would [...]
