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We so often list our prayer requests. Would people be so kind as to share the answers to their prayers or the miracles they have witnessed?

Dwight you have been an intercessor for so many. THANK YOU!

Just the mercy of God poured out despite my complaining and grumbling is a miracle. Christ looks beyond me the person and sees my soul. I long for more of you Jesus, yet I give him so very little. That is a miracle, despite myself, he still loves me.

Give us more Jesus of you, for we are earthen vessels Lord and we leak. Thank you Jesus!

I will be lighting candles at Christmas, for all the intentions on the forum, and those unspoken in our hearts.

There are so many prayers granted . . . and not granted . . . that I can say Amen and Thank you.

Here is one: the son of a friend of a relative was in an front end accident while driving a truck. The truck was crushed, and he should have died. He didn't. The cab of the truck crumpled around him, and he was trapped, but he did not die. OK, said the doctors, but he will end up blind in one eye, and it would take weeks (or months) to recover from his injuries. No. His eye was fully healed, and he recovered from his injuries in a relatively short amounf of time. Many people prayed for that young man, including people from the Forum. Thank you again; and thanks be ultimately to God !

-- John

Glory to God!

John,

That reminds me - in 2002 - I filed our taxes late and we got a huge return for the two years I had not filed.

The next day, we were in a bad accident. The car was totaled. My husband was kept in a hospital up near Nashville -as we had been traveling - and I was brought back to B'ham to a trauma center here.

His sternum and finger was broke. But, the coraded (sp) artery had been cut. My neck became as big as my head. My neruologist thought I would have a major stroke. The doctors, once having me stablized said I would be in ICU for a minimum of three weeks.

I was home from the hospital in six days. The doctors said it was nothing short of miraculous. People from the Church took over with the kids, and stocked our fridge. The money from the taxes, well they were enough money to take care of us until Fr. Deacon Stan was able to return to work.

Thankyou to all who responded. I was hoping to see many responses.

Dear Dwight,

Sometimes we have so many prayers answered or small miracles that we don't know where to start!

If people only knew how sometimes everything that can go wrong will go wrong, they would realize that anything good in their lives, a pregnancy, a child, a marriage, a home, good health, a success of theirs or their children's, a talent used well, a job, a career,--EVERYTHING is a miracle and gift, and these things have nothing to do with people 'doing things right' and they are not a credit to themselves, but a credit to God who has graciously gifted them with all of this!

However, since you want specifics, here is one: when I was three months pregnant with my daughter I had an episode that had all the clear implications of miscarriage--so much so that the doctor admitted me into the hospital for the night because of what he felt would be the inevitable...mind you, a sonogram confirmed that there was indeed a problem...

Well, it was the eve of the Feast of St. Nektarios, who my family has always venerated greatly. I was annointed with his oil, and the next day when my husband and mother were going to go to Divine Liturgy for his feast I said "I KNOW that he will not allow a miscarriage to happen on his feast day".

Sure enough, no miscarriage happened, the 'inevitable' symptoms stopped, and the pregnancy went on without a hitch, and I gave birth at term to a healthy baby girl.

Needless to say, though my doctor was happy to allow me to leave the hospital, I could sense that he was a bit perplexed!

Glory to God for all things!

Alice

Wow that is amazing Alice.

Such a blessing to bring forth new life, and to share the wonderful gift of life with us as we prepare again to celebrate the new life given to us that night and laid in the manger. Glory to you God, glory to you!