Description: "Do you want to believe that miracles can happen? Perhaps you need something greater than yourself to hold you, safely guide your way through a desperate situation, and answer your fervent prayer. Have you wondered if something you experienced could be considered a miracle? Perhaps, at just the right time, you receive an encouraging text from a friend across the country. Or maybe it was much more dramatic. Something life-altering such as a split-second decision, an instinct, to slow your car just before the vehicle in front of you lost control. Regardless of its nature, once you have a miracle experience, big or small, you are never the same. You are changed by your miracle. By exploring their own experiences, searching out religious texts, and collecting stories shared by others, the authors have compiled what they believe is the truest meaning of miracles. The Miracle Collectors offer inspirational stories of miracles that ripple through time and space changing the lives of others. Readers will learn to recognize and celebrate miracles for the gift of grace that they are"--
Review Quotes: The word "miracle" might bring to mind an image of someone walking on water or jumping out of a wheelchair, but sometimes a miracle occurs when the phone rings at just the right time, or a certain car drives by just when your life depends on it. In my own life, I've come to define a "miracle" as a moment when God reveals his presence to me. It turns out I'm not alone. Joan Luise Hill and Katie Mahon--beneficiaries of miracles in their own lives--have done a fantastic job of compiling and sharing these beautiful testimonies that remind us not only how God's got our back, but he created us to have each other's backs.
Today, when the world is reeling from the destructive forces of the global pandemic and unjust racial, social and economic inequality, The Miracle Collectors could not have come at a better time. The recognition of miracles in our lives is a necessary remedy for the human family to begin rebuilding a culture that has sadly descended into "us and them" tribalism and has closed ourselves off to the beauty of fraternal love. The hundreds of deeply personal testimonies of courage, faith, forgiveness, and hope in this book will help open your eyes to unlikely angels and miraculous events--ones that can't simply be chalked up to coincidence or luck. The Miracle Collectors will remind you how God is revealing himself all over the place through the gift of other people. By sharing the witness of others and waking us up to the beauty, love and - yes - supernatural power of the God who unifies us all, this book challenges us to collect miracles in our own lives. The Miracle Collectors reminds us that we can be better than we are, and more connected with each other as brothers and sisters. Thank you, Joan and Katie, for this wonderful book that very well maybe the miracle someone has been looking for.
--Jeannie Gaffigan is a producer, writer, philanthropist, mother of five and a New York Times Bestseller for her book, When Life gives You Pears. She is a founding member and director of TheImagineSociety.org