Friday, March 30, 2007

How one knows that one is living miraculously

  • A different 50+ people come to your house every night to pray with your family
  • people who have said that they do not believe in God tell you that they are praying for you
  • You wake up with thoughts on life that insist on being written down. Feeling completely instrumental (and not at all exerting agency over the words) you open up a blank screen and begin writing. Twenty minutes after continuous typing, an article appears only to be found somehow by a priest in Florida two weeks later --who then reads it to his congregation....AND this somehow gets back to you 'through a friend'.
  • People want to be at your house all the time around you and your dying father because there is an incomprehensible feeling of peace
  • You haven't been sick-not in the slightest-for 6 months, with sick people all around you
  • You haven't prepared a meal in 3 weeks
  • A priest pleads for prayers for your family in a newsletter that reaches 18,000 of the faithful
  • red roses in your living room stay in bloom for weeks on end
  • your sister's boyfriend of quiet faith, tells you that he prays the rosary on the fishing boat for the family
  • and perhaps most importantly...but the most difficult one to put into words: The whole community seems to have simultaneously lost the ' that's your problem attitude'. There is no superficiality, only genuinely concerned and prayerful hearts

And many, many more. To be continued....

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