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12/14/2010

Do you believe in Miracles? - No it’s not the 1980 USA Hockey Team story, it’s mine.

       How many of you really believe in miracles? I mean really believe in miracles.  How many of you want a miracle and feel silly asking for one. But this is based on real life miracles. Why are you afraid to ask for a miracle, afraid it won’t happen or if it happens would you believe it was just a coincidence? There are no coincidences my friend.

       It’s the holiday season and for so many people this time of the year it ……sucks.  You don’t live up to the expectations of others or you are not as happy or joyful and you’d rather not be out there at all. Why? You really are control of your own emotions. You dictate how you feel. It is such an easy spiral downward if you let it. One sad, angry, emotional thought becomes two thoughts and then you ask yourself - how am I going to get out of this? 

     What miracle would you ask for right now.  I’ll wait……..go ahead, just ask.  Do you think it’s too big? Think about the whole world, and all the people in it. My mother used to say “put your problems in a hat, and you’d still want to pick your own out.”  I never believed that until I got older and saw what problems are out there.  Sometimes it gets to me, that I am complaining? You know someone, right now who is suffering, physically, emotionally, financially or spiritually? Why not direct your thoughts for them. Direct positive prayer, positive energy towards that person or their family. You have power right now that you are not using. 

      I am so thankful for the daily miracles that happen to me and my family each and every day. Today a miracle happened to me and while I am holding it close to my heart, and someone might not see it as a miracle - I do. Isn’t that what it’s all about. Finding the good in all situations, and choosing to be thankful not ungrateful. Choose something to call a miracle today. Who cares if someone doesn’t think it’s a miracle - you think it is - THEN IT IS!
      My Christmas wish is to see your miracles posted on my blog. Leave it anonymously if you want. You reading this is my miracle - yes you are a miracle to me. Ton o’ blessings AND miracles to you until next time. Love you my snow angel.

8 comments:

  1. In 1974, my mother had gone to the doctor for her yearly exam. She was 32 and healthy; the doc said everything was great. A couple of weeks later, she was showering and found a lump in her breast about the size of a pea. By the time she was able to have a biopsy done, the lump was the size of a golf ball. She ended up having a double mastectomy and the doctor pronounced her cancer free.
    About two years later, she was having back pain. She has scoliosis and attributed it to that but ended up at the doctors office again. Her breast cancer had matastacized to her spine. Luckily, she ended up at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta where they fused her spine, put her in a HALO with full body cast for six months and gave her chemotherapy and radiation to treat the tumor. I don't know if you've ever seen a HALO but she had one of the first in the country. It is a steel band encircling the skull with four bolts screwed directly into the bone. Back then they used a full body cast; today they only use a shoulder brace. When she went in for the surgery, we weren't sure we would see her again. After the surgery, the doctor told my dad he fixed it but that the fusion would probably only work for 18-24 months and that there was nothing else that could be done. We would go to the hospital after school and sit with her while we did our homework, waiting for the day she would be able to go home. We did that for a long time. Once released, she was forced to give up all the physical activities she enjoyed so as not to injure her fused vertebrae.
    That was 36 years ago. She has lived with constant back pain and headaches since then but is the strongest woman I know. Obviously, she was left on this earth for a reason. We will get to celebrate Christmas again this year because God's hands guided everyone involved in her recovery. You don't see many cancer survivors with that history who are still alive to talk about it.
    Merry Christmas and enjoy your family forever.

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  2. I am so touched by your post and am grateful that you told me your mom's story. She is a walking miracle. My mom has been with Jesus since 2003 but as you can see, has never left my side. Have a blessed Christmas and a joyous New Year my friend.

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  3. Good job D. best post yet. Thats as mushy as I get. CD

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  4. CD - thank you for commenting and am blessed to have you as a miracle to me! Ok no more mush either.

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  5. DINA CLIFFORD.....YOUR POST MAKE ME PEE SOMTIMES, THEY ARE ALL SO GOOD AND INTERESTING TO READ, AND THE MORE I READ, well, THE MORE I PEE, O DEAR. DINA BUT SERIOUSLY YOUR DOING A FANTABSTICAL JOB...SO KEEP IT UP, CUASE I WANNA PEE MORE LOL.

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  6. Twitter has been my miracle. I know you laugh....but it has brought the most wonderful, exciting, loving people into my life and the most extraordinary experiences and opportunities.

    ps - I love your mother. She is right.

    Happy Holidays My Friend!

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  7. I totally agree with you MomsThoughts. I am so blessed to have met in person and on line thee most caring people I know. Thanks for commenting and hope this Christmas will be the best ever.

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