Did you ever experience a miracle. Something that you know had ZERO chance to happen, yet it did.

[Anonymous]

The closet to a miracle was one time we were going to meet up with our friends. DD was 4 I think. We walked to our car, but our friends texted me that they were running late, we had almost an hour. So we turned around. I went back in the house. DH went to the yard. I thought DD followed him. He thought she followed me. Instead she sneaked into the car and buckled herself in. Because she really wanted to go. It was a complex 5 point harness and she couldn’t unbuckle. She tried to scream but DH didn’t hear her or see her. It was a summer day. In the South.

After sitting at home for a while, maybe 15-20 minutes I decided (thank God!) to check on them. So I call DH: “what are you guys doing? What’s DD doing?” After a short exchange we realized neither one of us had her I started going around the house looking for her and soon realized she was nowhere to be found. Luckily I quickly ran to check the car too and by some miracle she was fine. Strapped in the back seat. A little hot but alive and no even passed out.

I will forever be grateful to the guardian angel that saved her. I still have tears when I think about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The closet to a miracle was one time we were going to meet up with our friends. DD was 4 I think. We walked to our car, but our friends texted me that they were running late, we had almost an hour. So we turned around. I went back in the house. DH went to the yard. I thought DD followed him. He thought she followed me. Instead she sneaked into the car and buckled herself in. Because she really wanted to go. It was a complex 5 point harness and she couldn’t unbuckle. She tried to scream but DH didn’t hear her or see her. It was a summer day. In the South.

After sitting at home for a while, maybe 15-20 minutes I decided (thank God!) to check on them. So I call DH: “what are you guys doing? What’s DD doing?” After a short exchange we realized neither one of us had her I started going around the house looking for her and soon realized she was nowhere to be found. Luckily I quickly ran to check the car too and by some miracle she was fine. Strapped in the back seat. A little hot but alive and no even passed out.

I will forever be grateful to the guardian angel that saved her. I still have tears when I think about it.

Sounds like you saved her.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:In my teens through my early 20s I had this close friend. Long story short, when I was breaking up with my long-term boyfriend, my friend sided with the boyfriend (although we were friends first). Maybe because they were both guys, who knows. It was a touchy situation and we lost touch soon after with lots of hurt feelings.

In my late twenties, I was coming home late via Metro and ran into him out of nowhere - he just happened to board the same Metro car right where I was sitting. It was like no time had passed at all. We exchanged numbers and met up soon after. He met my boyfriend (who is now my husband), we caught up on our lives, reminisced about our old friend group and our crazy teenage years, and made peace about what caused us to lose the friendship. It was a great evening and we made plans to meet up again soon.

He died in a freak accident the following month. I am not religious but I think it was meant to be that we got to meet again before he left this earth.

Nice for you, but not so nice for your dead friend. Would have been better for him if you had not met up again and he got to live to old age.

How do you know it would have been better for him? Maybe his death prevented mass shooting? Or bombing? Or some other big disaster.

You mean the friend was a murderer? Or that he himself died in a noble cause?

Generally death is considered to be a bad (but inevitable) thing, and people go to great lengths to stay alive. Maybe this friend was different, though, and is better off dead -- and how nice that God provided this miracle for his friend to connect one more before he met his fate.

We don't know that, right. You assume that the friend's death was not good for him, but we truly don't know. What if he would become a child molester? Wasn't it good that he died and many lives were saved? You operate your conclusion on an assumption.
Considered by whom? Why then there are so many people supporting assisted suicide or commit suicide if the death considered to be that bad?

Assisted suicide is personal choice, Committing suicide can be a personal choice or can be a result of mental illness or other distress.

There's no way of know if he would have become a child molester or something really good, like a philanthropist. But he didn't get a chance - he was killed in a freak accident. Could be that if he had a choice in the matter, he would have selected a long life instead of a freak accident soon after resolving a friendship issue that was nice for pp

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:In my teens through my early 20s I had this close friend. Long story short, when I was breaking up with my long-term boyfriend, my friend sided with the boyfriend (although we were friends first). Maybe because they were both guys, who knows. It was a touchy situation and we lost touch soon after with lots of hurt feelings.

In my late twenties, I was coming home late via Metro and ran into him out of nowhere - he just happened to board the same Metro car right where I was sitting. It was like no time had passed at all. We exchanged numbers and met up soon after. He met my boyfriend (who is now my husband), we caught up on our lives, reminisced about our old friend group and our crazy teenage years, and made peace about what caused us to lose the friendship. It was a great evening and we made plans to meet up again soon.

He died in a freak accident the following month. I am not religious but I think it was meant to be that we got to meet again before he left this earth.

Nice for you, but not so nice for your dead friend. Would have been better for him if you had not met up again and he got to live to old age.

How do you know it would have been better for him? Maybe his death prevented mass shooting? Or bombing? Or some other big disaster.

You mean the friend was a murderer? Or that he himself died in a noble cause?

Generally death is considered to be a bad (but inevitable) thing, and people go to great lengths to stay alive. Maybe this friend was different, though, and is better off dead -- and how nice that God provided this miracle for his friend to connect one more before he met his fate.

We don't know that, right. You assume that the friend's death was not good for him, but we truly don't know. What if he would become a child molester? Wasn't it good that he died and many lives were saved? You operate your conclusion on an assumption.
Considered by whom? Why then there are so many people supporting assisted suicide or commit suicide if the death considered to be that bad?

Assisted suicide is personal choice, Committing suicide can be a personal choice or can be a result of mental illness or other distress.

There's no way of know if he would have become a child molester or something really good, like a philanthropist. But he didn't get a chance - he was killed in a freak accident. Could be that if he had a choice in the matter, he would have selected a long life instead of a freak accident soon after resolving a friendship issue that was nice for pp

How do you know that that particular person would have selected a long life instead of suicide? You just assuming that without knowing for a fact.

[Anonymous]

Years ago my daughter, about 12 at the time, needed to stay home. I don't recall what the reason was, but at that point she was old enough to stay home from school alone. For some reason, I decided to take her to work with me, which I had never done in my 15 years at the company with any of my kids.

That evening when we got home, we discovered that there had been a break in. Back door glass was smashed in, and a lot of important things were stolen.

We had never had a break in before, and had I not taken my daughter to work with me that day, she would have been home during the robbery. I am not particularly religious, but to this day I can't think God enough for protecting her! And I still can't explain why I took her to work with me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People are making coincidences Into miracles here. Miracles aren’t real, they are just science we haven’t figured out yet.

And I bet you and all of your infinite wisdom thinks that you sound smart. Spoiler alert: you don't.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:People are making coincidences Into miracles here. Miracles aren’t real, they are just science we haven’t figured out yet.

And I bet you and all of your infinite wisdom thinks that you sound smart. Spoiler alert: you don't.

DP, and I disagree. It sounds much smarter than "it's magic". Also has been proven so many times throughout history.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:People are making coincidences Into miracles here. Miracles aren’t real, they are just science we haven’t figured out yet.

And I bet you and all of your infinite wisdom thinks that you sound smart. Spoiler alert: you don't.

DP, and I disagree. It sounds much smarter than "it's magic". Also has been proven so many times throughout history.

Go harass another thread, Debbie DumDum Downer.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:People are making coincidences Into miracles here. Miracles aren’t real, they are just science we haven’t figured out yet.

And I bet you and all of your infinite wisdom thinks that you sound smart. Spoiler alert: you don't.

DP, and I disagree. It sounds much smarter than "it's magic". Also has been proven so many times throughout history.

Curious why you and PP are trolling on the religious forum when you believe in Science. Are you looking for spirituality or an argument?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:People are making coincidences Into miracles here. Miracles aren’t real, they are just science we haven’t figured out yet.

And I bet you and all of your infinite wisdom thinks that you sound smart. Spoiler alert: you don't.

DP, and I disagree. It sounds much smarter than "it's magic". Also has been proven so many times throughout history.

Go harass another thread, Debbie DumDum Downer.

Thanks for confirming my beliefs about many religious people. Insulting, intolerant and threatened by thoughts that don't provide the required confirmation bias.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:People are making coincidences Into miracles here. Miracles aren’t real, they are just science we haven’t figured out yet.

And I bet you and all of your infinite wisdom thinks that you sound smart. Spoiler alert: you don't.

DP, and I disagree. It sounds much smarter than "it's magic". Also has been proven so many times throughout history.

Curious why you and PP are trolling on the religious forum when you believe in Science. Are you looking for spirituality or an argument?

This has been explained many times, and is obvious. It's the "religion" forum, not the "religious" forum as you Freudian-slipped.

Discussing whether or not miracles exist is a legitimate discussion of a topic related to religion. Open forums are best are when all views can be presented and any side can present their evidence for same.

[Anonymous]

Close friend of mine actually had the classic example of scheduling a flight with a close connection at a big airport / first leg was late / he missed the connection by about 5 minutes (could hear them announcing it as he ran through the airport) / connecting flight crashed and killed everyone on board. While he was safe at the airport trying to reschedule his last leg to get home.

Obviously not a miracle for everyone else on the plane, especially the standby passenger who took his place when he missed the flight. So objectively I have a hard time considering it a miracle - it was good luck for one person and bad luck for someone else - but he definitely felt like there was a guardian angel watching out for him that day.

[Anonymous]

One night I was dreaming about our grandson. In the dream he was about 2. We had not seen him in a few years. My heart ached in my waking hours I missed him so much. Anyway I remember him running up to me. We were at some boat dock at night. It had colored lights all over. When he got to me I picked him up and held him close to me. I could even smell him. I started turning around and around then I fainted in my dream. Everything went black. My sense of smell, my hearing, my eyesight. Black.

Then I heard a voice say wake up. When I did it felt like I died in my dream.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Close friend of mine actually had the classic example of scheduling a flight with a close connection at a big airport / first leg was late / he missed the connection by about 5 minutes (could hear them announcing it as he ran through the airport) / connecting flight crashed and killed everyone on board. While he was safe at the airport trying to reschedule his last leg to get home.

Obviously not a miracle for everyone else on the plane, especially the standby passenger who took his place when he missed the flight. So objectively I have a hard time considering it a miracle - it was good luck for one person and bad luck for someone else - but he definitely felt like there was a guardian angel watching out for him that day.

I find stories like this one so intriguing. Did your friend ever speak of feeling any guilt? Was he afraid to fly after that experience? I think being in his shoes would haunt me just knowing how close I came to dying. I obsess over things like this. Even though it was a gift for him, it was kinda of a double-edged sword.

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Anonymous wrote:Close friend of mine actually had the classic example of scheduling a flight with a close connection at a big airport / first leg was late / he missed the connection by about 5 minutes (could hear them announcing it as he ran through the airport) / connecting flight crashed and killed everyone on board. While he was safe at the airport trying to reschedule his last leg to get home.

Obviously not a miracle for everyone else on the plane, especially the standby passenger who took his place when he missed the flight. So objectively I have a hard time considering it a miracle - it was good luck for one person and bad luck for someone else - but he definitely felt like there was a guardian angel watching out for him that day.

I find stories like this one so intriguing. Did your friend ever speak of feeling any guilt? Was he afraid to fly after that experience? I think being in his shoes would haunt me just knowing how close I came to dying. I obsess over things like this. Even though it was a gift for him, it was kinda of a double-edged sword.

He was lucky. The people on the plane that crashed were not lucky