A Miracle

January 26, 2022

A miracle. Many many miracles have happened to me throughout the years. I am never surprised when they do happen, but I am always amazed. On January 26, 2015, a miracle once again happened in my life. It was about 10:00PM. My husband was going to bed. He asked me if I wanted my featherbed. I told him that I couldn’t use the featherbed on the recliner because all the feathers would be falling over the edge of the chair. So, we kissed, said goodnight and he went off to bed. I had been sleeping on the recliner because I had been unable to lie flat on a bed. I had been in incredible pain for nine years and no one could figure out what was wrong with me that made my stomach hurt 24/7. I had had a hysterectomy in 2005 and surgery in the summer of 2006 to get rid of the adhesions that were perhaps causing the pain. After the second surgery I had had no pain for one month, and then the pain came back on the next day. It had been worse than ever, and never went away. Like I said I lived with that pain for nine years, after all it would not have been possible to have surgery every month. That would have been much too excessive. Anyway, back to the night of this particular miracle. January 26, 2015. As I said, I was in the recliner. All of a sudden I reached my hands up towards the ceiling and prayed with as much passion as I could, “God please help me. I can’t stand this pain anymore. Just once more I would like to sleep in my bed under my featherbed.” I had my eyes opened. I wasn’t praying loudly, but I was praying with desperation, passion, and undeniable faith that God could help me. I put my hands down and started to move around on the recliner trying to find a comfortable position…of course there never was one. As I rolled over on my left side, there was no pain. As I rolled over on my right side there was no pain. I got up and walked into the second bedroom so that I could climb under my featherbed that hadn’t covered me for 9 years. No pain. I was so excited and so grateful. The pain, even up until this day has never come back. I would say that was a miracle. Okay here is one more. We had wall to wall carpeting in our house in Florida. Not my choice. It was there when we bought the house. So, over the years I tried to keep the beige rug clean, but it was never a total success. Mostly in the dining room, even without shoes on, the rug would continue to get dirty. So. one day in my “wisdom” I decided to paint the dining room section of the rug. If it didn’t work, we would tear it up and put down an area rug. I used watered down acrylic paint. I figured that paint is so hard to get off a rug when it is accidently spilled, it should also last if I painted the rug on purpose. So, I painted the rug on purpose. I used sponges and made a mixed design, pretty much one color next to another. I got it done and went to bed. The next morning when I woke up the entire dining room rug was wall to wall hearts. All the colors combined with each other overnight, and we ended up with a rug full of hearts. Wow. How did that happen? It was a miracle. The painted rug worked out fine. I think the secret is that you had to water the paint down. Anyway, what fun to see those hearts and live with them for as long as we continued to live in that house. Like I said miracles happen all the time in my life. I am telling you, because I would like you to get connected with God and his power to create miracles in your life as well. Or to have you tell others about your miracles so that if they have not experienced them maybe hearing stories of miracles will encourage them that miracles do exist for everyone. I can’t tell you how happy it makes me to have God and miracles as a part of my life. Just as a word of advice. I am not an expert on miracles, but I find if you are asking for help with what you have the results are better than if you ask for something you don’t have that you want. For instance, I knew a woman who desperately wanted a new kitchen. For a long time, she prayed for a new kitchen over and over again. She got her kitchen because her house totally flooded out one day because of a storm. She got what she wanted, but she did not get it in the way she wanted to. Be careful of what you ask for… You might get unexpected success.

Granny-o