What’s Your Story?
Miracle stories fascinate our minds, fortify our faith, and fuel our hope.
More than anything, miracles remind us that we’re not alone in this often-frightening world. Even when circumstances are at their darkest and we feel like a David preparing to meet our own Goliath, miracle stories bolster our belief that there is a spiritual dimension every bit as real as the physical dimension we can see, hear, touch, and taste. We’re reassured that there truly is a plan and purpose for our lives—and, most important, someone helping us to fulfill that unique plan and purpose.
In this book, you’ve met dozens of people for whom the word miracle has taken on intensely personal meaning. In the midst of facing what seemed like insurmountable challenges, illness, or grief, something changed and the unexplainable happened. The tide turned. What was lost was found. Second chances were embraced. Grace was granted.
You’ve been entertained and perhaps even inspired by these stories about amazing things that happened to others.
But what about you?
There’s a good chance that, as you look back over the pages of your life, you have your own miraculous story to tell. Perhaps you’ve never told it in a collection like this one, but it’s just as astounding and life-changing as any of these experiences. The sad truth is that while our miracles are real, our memories are fallible and our gratitude can fade over time until, eventually, as we look back, the miraculous evokes little more awe than the mundane.
Or maybe you can’t point to a single breathtaking miraculous event. Even if this is the case, there has been a series of decisions, events, and surprises that have helped get you to where you are today. What some people would call coincidence or good fortune you call God’s involvement. You’ve been reassured that God sees you and cares about you.
Miracles happen. They’ve happened to those in this book, and they’ve happened to you. One challenge each of us faces is keeping ourselves from allowing the passage of time and the fading of memories to rob us of the wonder we felt when a miracle was new. Another challenge is keeping ourselves from dismissing seemingly “small” miracles and so underestimating not only their impact but also the one who intervened.
Whether or not you’re aware of it, the truth is that mysteries do exist, and there absolutely, positively is a plan and purpose for your life.
It’s our hope and prayer that these stories will encourage you to turn an enlightened eye on your own life, that they will remind you of the times God has intervened, and that they will put “lucky coincidences” in a new light too.
It’s also our desire that these stories enlarge your hope and expand your faith. Trusting that God can intervene—and walking day by day anticipating his loving touch—is the best way to live. In fact, it opens the door for him to move freely in your life. All blessings find their source in him: “Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows” (James 1:17).
Look for those gifts. In your past. In your present. In your future. Your story is every bit as wonderful and God-directed as the stories in this book.