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Miracles

What does it mean to pray for a miracle?  We pray harder for them when there is a crisis or illness, but do we believe they'll happen?  Do we?

A miracle did happen in my life today.

Remember when I wrote about Job?  Wondering how he could accept the good AND the bad from God?? (Here's where I wrote it.)  I reflected then on all that seemed bad and God used for so much good in our life.

Well, last night was very hard.  I didn't sleep much - maybe a total of 4 hours (because my dear husband let me sleep in until 7:30 but Damian hadn't really fallen asleep until 3:45ish).  He has had cycles of fevers that we've been treating.  All of this is yet another level of the this-seems-so-familiar with respect to Louis' illness.

As I was playfully complaining about being tired this morning on Facebook, someone made a comment about baby Damian making up for not letting me sleep and I said...

 Later in the day, I tried to do something on my phone and my Divine Office app started playing. So, I shut it off.  A few minutes later, it randomly went on again and started playing the morning prayer again.  So, once again, I shut it off.  This happened several more times and I'm starting to get a little creeped out.  The darn thing would not stay off!  As I'm trying to get the boys together and into the car, every time I tried to use my phone the app started playing.  Finally, after at least ten attempts, I just gave up and let it play.  The boys complained but I told them hopefully if we let it play through we can then turn it off and it will stay off.

And as we are driving through the country side and boys are talking over it, I hear the reading announced.  Can you guess what it was?  Yep, it was the SAME EXACT reading from Job that struck me before:

READING Job 1:21; 2:10b
Naked I came forth from my mother’s womb,
and naked I shall go back again.
The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away;
blessed be the name of the Lord!
We accept good things from God;
and should we not accept evil?

And after the reading was over, the signal glitched and I tried to stop it and play Pandora (which previously had just made the app start again), this time it worked.  Our day moved on, but there was that verse again...

Maybe it was just a malfunction, but God can even use malfunctions.  Here I was complaining & joking that I would have to have words with God ... and He has words for me!  

I have prayed that He would take this illness away, that my boys, our family would not have to suffer like this.  I have prayed for miracles of healing for Louis and now for Damian.  I knew what miracles I wanted to have happen.

You know, God did give me a miracle today, but not the one I wanted nor expected.  He gave me the miracle of reaching into my life and making Himself known.  It was a miracle of a moment of confirmation that He is here with us now and He has us in His hands.  What a gift to realize God is with us!  And He can even use an iPhone!  I'm all sassy like "I'm going to talk to God about this" and He's all like "yes, let's talk, I'm here- why don't you think about this again?"  He scooped into my little mundane life to speak to me.  And of course He does this constantly, but this was in such a vivid way that it floored me.

Moral of the story: God loves me personally.  God loves you personally, too.  And ... watch out, because He is reading your Facebook! ;-)

a punch to your shoulder,

the Martins