Has something miraculous ever happened to you?

Has something miraculous ever happened to you? What do you think caused it? Do you think it was intervention from a super-human figure, or just a statistic. Thanks for all of the replies in advance

Has something miraculous ever happened to you?

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Can you give me your definition of miraculous? That way I know what you mean and we can set a definition to work off of in this thread.

Things like coming down with cancer with a 5% survival rate, and beating it...being in a bad car accident that everyone survived. Anything where you had a low chance of surviving but you did.

Saw11_2000 said:

Things like coming down with cancer with a 5% survival rate, and beating it...being in a bad car accident that everyone survived. Anything where you had a low chance of surviving but you did.

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So luck, but dealing with your ability to live = miracle? I can say I've been lucky before... only once was it life threatening though. It was my appendix exploding, but I give praise to the doctors who took the time to save my life. No 'divine intervention,' unless you consider that me going to my mother and saying "My stomach really, really hurts," and her taking me to the doctor...

As Meogi pointed out, your use of the word 'miraculous' is a bit 'fuzzy'; but yes, something miraculous has happened to me - I was at the birth of my two sons; what could be more miraculous than that?

I'm not sure if one could call them miraculous, but I have experienced several things that could not be explained by science.

The one thing that could easily be explained by science was me having survived eating Nightshade at an early age. I was visiting my mom who worked in the hospital at the time.

1. Of the nature of a miracle; preternatural.
2. So astounding as to suggest a miracle; phenomenal: a miraculous recovery; a miraculous escape.
3. Able to work miracles

Okay hopefully we're all on the same page now.

FeathersinHair said:

The one thing that could easily be explained by science was me having survived eating Nightshade at an early age. I was visiting my mom who worked in the hospital at the time.

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The only supernatural thing I believe in is subatomic physics.

The nightshade thing can of course be explained in many ways. It isn't exactly healthy to eat certain parts of certain plants in the potato family, but not everything causes instantaneous death. Your nightshade episode might even have been a case of confusing Solanum scabrum with the very similar but more sinister Solanum nigrum.

Apparently, it was the berries of what many reliable persons had decided was the nightshade version of Solanum and not the Garden Huckleberry. A hospital official had kept it as a decoration on a table in the inner, inner offices of the hospital, in order to have it nearby so that she could admire a plant that had both deadly and healing properties. (I believe it is also known by the name Atropa belladonna, though I could be mistaken.) According to my mom, she and the other lady were having a nice chat when one of them turned around to see me munching on a handful of the berries. (If memory serves, I was two at the time.) Again, they were in the hospital, so they didn't have to rush very far to have my stomach pumped.

I need to remember some other ones that were more 'miraculous'. This one wasn't.

Saw11_2000 said:

Things like coming down with cancer with a 5% survival rate, and beating it...being in a bad car accident that everyone survived. Anything where you had a low chance of surviving but you did.

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That's not miraculous. Now, if you had a zero chance of surviving but did anyway you might be onto something.

Not to me, it did'nt; and I'm not sure you would term it as 'miraculous', but here goes anyway........
I was only 5 or 6 years old, and I did have one friend; our parents used to try and have us together in the afternoons (alternate houses each day etc). Mum was telling me that this kid's Mum used to give him a glass of milk each day at around four o'clock in the afternoon.

After a while, she noticed him taking it out into the Garden, and she thought nothing of it. One day, he asked her for a saucer; she was puzzled, but gave him the saucer.

One day, she could'nt help her inquisiteness, and followed him, so he would't see her. He went to one part of the busshy garden, sat on the ground, poured some milk in the saucer, and lo and behold, a large snake appeared out of the bushes, came right up to the kid, drank the milk, and then calmly disappeared again.
I have always thought of that as 'innocence personified'.

All my sins were forgiven and my heart was born to a new life. Nothing more miraculous than that!

Ive had a few run-ins with 'old man coyote'.... Not sure I'd call them miracles though :biglaugh:

wa:do

My whole life could be seen as miraculous and supernatural. But it isn't, it is natural. I don't believe in the supernatural, because even if something that is seen as supernatural happens, it is indeed happening in nature, and thus natural.

FeathersinHair said:

The one thing that could easily be explained by science was me having survived eating Nightshade at an early age. I was visiting my mom who worked in the hospital at the time.

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I don't feel so alone now in the "youngster-innocently-eats-poisonous-objects" catagory! Apparently, at the age of two, I had a thing for mushrooms, and decided to eat some growing in my back yard. They were quite poisonous, and I had to be rushed to the hospital to get my stomach pumped. To this day I am not overly fond of mushrooms!

The infilling of the holy Spirit, should not be unique but since it is alien to most Christians I would have to say that is a miracle for me but really it's just the beginning of miracles. Every thing which I experience as a result of being the seed of Abraham thru Christ is a miracle.

my birth was nothing short of miraculous... not to brag.

My mother is rh- in blood type, all her children are rh+
now having two children of the opposite is ok, the body doesn't reject the child the first couple of exposures... She started to have miscarrages after that however as her body thought of the children as 'invaders' and killed them.
She had a lot of miscarrages untill I was born...

So her body was actively trying to reject me through my stay, it was a very slim chance that I would make it full term, but I did.
Then you add to that... my umbilical cord was wrapped three times around my neck nearly strangleing me to death and/or snaping it.
yet again I refused to be done in and I'm still kickin' to this day. :jam:

I also nearly drowned in a well when I was a young. I was stuck upside down untill I blacked out, I don't remember being pulled out, just the icy water and thinking it was wierd to feel air on my feet as I bobbed up and down but couldn't flip right side up. And the light and shadows on the water.
To fight my fear of water I made sure I learned to swim by the time I was 10 I was a few lessons away from Life Gurard Cirtification. Every once in a while force myself to swim accross some of the large-ish lakes in my area. I tend to start to freak out in the middle, but I keep going to deal with my fear. (probably about a half mile distance both ways)

wa:do

i'll add another one to the young child eating poison category. In fact, i did on a regular basis until the public school which i moved to no longer had a bible class. not only was i exposed to this toxin frequently, but i also miraculously avoided many of the common side effects such as self-riteousness, prejudice, and zealous religious violence.
show me a miracle, and i'll show you a science text book or a calculator
sorry everyone i havent posted in a while so i'm having atheist brain spasms, i'll be done soon, pray for me

Miracle ! , The world is full of miracles !!!

For miracle happen to you ,

Some conditions :

1. Expect a miracle to happen .
2.Whole heartedly accept that you deserved to have miracle in your life .

If also miralce doesn't happen ,

See Nature's Miracle , like asking questions like

1. Why stars are scattered ?
2. Why we have Sun in day and Moon in nights ? First of all why earth is rotating ?
3. How a seed germinates ?
4. Fast a day ! and think why you need to put something in your stomach ?
5. Do people born to die ?


If you feel still these are not miracle , close your eyes completely during your breakfast and after finishing it , it's little miracle that you ate without seeing !!!

I just think like this ...

Well my dears, If I can't share these two things that happened to me here at RF, where else can I? Frankly this was the reason I came to RF, to find others who have had similar experiences, wheather Christian based or otherwise. I can't possibly be the only one. Although I fear that most people are afraid that if they tell of these things, people will think them to be daft. I'll take that chance. Even if you start to call me crazy ole Martha, I know you still love me. I will try to be brief, but don't get your hopes up, for these are things that are not easily glossed over. In reference to the first incident, I will direct you to the search button. Type in Letter to the Athiests, go to page 9 and scroll down. I was new to the forums back in October, but gathered the courage to tell my story at length. I will try to condense it a wee bit here.

This is what happened approximately 18 years ago, I was in my thirties. I had been away from church for maybe 15 years at the time. While out walking I happened to see a church with it's center doors wide open. For some reason I decided to go in. There wasn't a soul in the place but me. I noticed a confessional booth up near the front of the church. I went in. It wasn't the same small booth I had remembered, this was larger. Suddenly a voice asked me to come in. Now I wanted to run out. What the heck was I doing in a confessional. I didn't want to confess, I never did like confession. Surely I'm not going in just for the heck of it. Too late though, I was committed now. There he sat, the Monsignor, lucky me , face to face confession, no screen between us! Who knew? I told him it had been a long time since my last confession and that I might not remember my Act of Contrition, which is what we say after our confession. He was kind and said he would help me if I needed it. So I began to recount what I believed to be my sins and after each one he said, " How many times?" How could I remember how many times in fifteen years? I started to get annoyed and finally I blurted out, " A lot, a lot, a lot of times! Suddenly for the first time in my life I realized how many times I had insulted my Lord. I had said that I loved Him, and talked to Him all the time, but I had followed my own mind and turned away from His teachings. I told the priest that I was finished and he told me to begin my Act of Contrition.......and so I began...Oh my God I am heartilly sorry for having offended Thee, for Thou art good and deserving of all my love.....I never meant those words more than at that moment and I began to sob. My tears subsided and he then told me to bow my head for the Absolution, it was here that it happened. He was speaking in latin and as I sat with head down and eyes closed I suddenly felt and saw this extreme bright light descending over me completely. The intense warmth and brightness was also filled with the most powerful feeling of love I cannot even describe it properly to you. Words fail miserably. Once I was enveloped in this light of love, these words were, how can I say it...heard but not with my ears, they were made known to my mind very clearly......I have been waiting for you, I forgive you, I love you. Then as suddenly as it had come, it was gone. I wanted to say something to the priest, but somehow I knew he had not experienced a thing. This love that I speak of is a million times more powerful than any love we could experience here. Just think of someone that you have loved, you know the feeling that you get in you chest just at the thought of them. Well that is nothing, nothing compared to this love. My God, your whole essence is LOVE! Unconditional, overwhelming, unending LOVE. I need a moment to regroup. When ever I recall this incident it blows me away , I so long to feel that love again. Guess I'm a little greedy.

Now I will tell of the next incident. This happened to me about 7 years ago. I was attending noon mass. Just a regular day, nothing unusual, go back to work after mass.
When I went up to receive communion, the priest lovingly held up the Eucharist and said " The body of Christ". Instantly the Eucharist which had been the size of a 50 cent piece, was now as large as , well as large as my face. The priest was no longer standing in front of me but in my periferal view some seven or eight feet to my left with his arm extended towards me as if still offering me the Holy Eucharist. It was as if time had stopped and all I could see was this gigantic Eucharist in front of me. It was such a powerful presence. Somehow I breathed out the word Amen. Again instantly the Eucharist was it's original size and the priest was now in front of me and he gave me communion. The only thing that I could take away from this experience, since no words had been spoken, was to focus totally on Jesus.

Well my loves there you have it. Nothing else like these two have ever happend to me again. As you can see there was quite a long time in between them. God has worked in my life many countless times. I have asked Him to use me any way he sees fit and He does. I wish I knew why He chose to show me these things. It was maddening at first. I kept asking why me? Then I would say, " Ok, now I know without doubt that you can speak to me, so what do you want of me?" Finally I just say, " Thank you Father for your gift, I will do what I can with this love you have shown me."

Ok my friends, you can close your mouths now, and some of you can stop laughing too! Some of you might believe, some may doubt, but I can never deny that this happened. I truly hope that perhaps there is another person that will read this, that has felt His presence in a tangible way and will not be afraid to share it with us. As I said, I can't possibly be the only one. I also don't believe that this only happens to christians. I believe God reveals Himself to His children all over the world. I would like to hear about it.
Thank you all for your time and indulgence. Miraculous? I'll leave that to your interpretation.

Joyfully in Jesus,
Martha