Posted on 08/07/2013 12:47:09 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
disappearing before the major networks and People magazine got ahold of him
Only God can perform miracles. Humans are not able to suspend the rules of nature and interrupt the chain of causality.
For the flamers: God can listen to someone’s prayers and perform a miracle. Canonization is based on, among other things, someone having interceded with God for the performance of a miracle.
bttt
It’s a long story, but I’ll try to cut it down a bit.
Younger days, driving too fast. For some reason, I decided to stop at a roadside eatery. Finished my meal, got back in my car and took off without buckling my seat belt. I have been a belt user before and since, I almost feel naked without it. On this one occasion, something kept me from buckling the belt, and it was a tricky belt that required two hands to fasten, so I couldn’t do it once in motion, so I decided to wait until I had a chance to stop.
There was a real bad blind curve, and I went into it too fast. The guardrail there was an old style one with heavy wire cables and wooden posts. The car was a convertible with a rollbar.
The nose of the car went under the wire cable, one of the wooden posts came up over the car, punched through the roof. When it was all over, there was a dent in the roll bar directly above the driver’s seat, and a brown scuff on the headrest.
When this happened, I was bouncing around in the car. If I had been buckled in the seat, that post would have hit me right in the face.
Some might say it was just dumb luck, I believe some higher force was involved.
I will... but it’s a bit lengthy...
I was attending a large IT convention in Manhattan. I was on the very back row of a commuter bus taking us from Javitz to our hotel. The bus pulls over to the right in the middle of the block, but the hotel is on the left.
Like ducks parading to the water, ever single passenger got off the bus, walked in front of the bus (my mom always told me not to do this), across the street, and into the hotel.
I was the very last one off the bus. Right as I cleared the side of the front of the bus to walk across the street, just as some 80 people had done before me, I feel a sharp jerk on my backpack which is slung across one shoulder. The jerk is hard enough to spin me around to the right, away from the bus, and for the backpack to slip down to my hand.
My first thought is.. “great, typical NYC... I’m getting my backpack snatched”
As I spin around, I feel something bang hard into my left elbow, which has swung around now, clearing the side of the bus, and it spins me 720 degrees on the balls of my feet. I hear people scream, and tires squealing.
My elbow was struck by the rear-view mirror of a taxicab speeding down the street. Had I stepped out, I would have been flattened.
I am uninjured, and still more worried about the thief, so I look around.
5 PM in Manhattan. People jammed elbow to elbow on either side of the street in both directions, waiting to cross on my block.
The entire sidewalk I am standing on is completely empty of pedestrians. Completely empty, red light to red light.
It is SO obvious that I am meant to know that no one was there.
The other side of the story is that the taxicab driver jumped out of the cab, ran over, adjusted his mirror, and sped off again.
“Only God can perform miracles”
Absolutely true, but sometimes God DOES use human agents, sometimes angels and sometimes He acts Himself.
A finite mind can’t comprehend an infinite God.
W. O. W.
yes, my FRiends ... Angels.
Amazing story. That’s why I love this kind of thread. So many people have just inexplicably felt the hand of Divine Providence.
What a shame you weren’t there.
That's how they roll.
One of my buddy’s kids is a fire dept paramedic.
They seem as afraid of “malpractice” as doctors.
I have a ‘85 MBZ 300D in great shape. Identical to the one in the picture. Still use it on long trips, get about 27 mpg.
I agree, I hope they never find him.
Maybe he fell into a hole??
**Whether it was a priest as an angel or an actual angel, he was an angel to all those and to Katie.”**
Thank God.
What was he The White Rabbit? :) Hope they do NOT find him. Best that he slipped away.
God can work through people.
Ever hear of an exorcist?
Firefighters are trained to do as much damage as possible to the vehicle.
My daughter in law had an accident with my son’s Corvette, that rendered it undrivable due to damage to the cooling system. The fire department refused to allow the towtruck driver to load it on his truck until they had cut the battery cables, which was totally unnessary because lowjack had already disconnected the battery from all parts of the electrical system.
The driver argued with them and they threatened to have him arrested.
They found that that they could not open the hood, so they asked him how to open it. He explained that the lowjack was in control, and that he would have to energize the hood latches through the lighter plug.
When he got it open, he showed them the interlock at the battery that had automatically disconnected it, but they still cut both cables and the radiator hose too, because they thought it was in their way.
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