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Date Posted: 12:54:14 02/21/02 Thu
Author: winnie
Subject: Unbelievers and Agnostics what is proof

Unbelievers and Agnostics.
I want to pose a question how do you explain miracles ? If that is not proof that what its proof ?
I have witnessed a miracle and if that did not set my faith rooted to my very sole I don't know what would.
Example:
A young eight year old boy driving in his parents min van on a icy road late at night 1000 miles away from hone near a town in Northern Ontario. A Christmas vacation to visit relatives fare away from his home in western Canada. The van slides on black ice and flips on its side crashing in to a rock cut and lands in a deep ditch full of snow and sinks. The father hanging up side down in the dark screams for his wife to answer him, she dose not. He is trapped disoriented and can hear his children crying for help. He keeps screaming for his wife's name and after a few moments she answers. She calls out to each of the children to hear them say they are all right. Three of the four answer frightened and scared in the dark. The youngest child the eight year old cry's out for his Daddy in pain. The father scrambles trying to get out of the set belt the wife tries to help find the buckle in the dark but up side down every thing is back words, she finely finds it and the father opens the door and the interior light comes on the children are covered in snow and broken open suit cases. The family dog in the arms of once of the children whines. The father climes out on the upside down the van witch is laying on its side he works his way to the back of the van looking for his young son. He yells his name and says to the other children to be still! His voice comes out from behind and under the snow and suit case's and the back set that had ripped loss in the accident. The father some how rips away what is left of the back of the van door and digs to find his son. Finding his son he asks him if he is all right. Holding him in his arms. He tells his father he thinks he has broken his arm.
The whole family takes a deep breath and is relieved but the story does not end there. The father turns around and there stands a man with his arms out and says "give him to me I will put him in my truck and keep him warm". The man had a long white hair and a beard the little boy later tells him he thought he was Santa. The rest of the children were removed from the van but the mother was jammed under the dash bord, one leg trapped. Finely after the father moved the set back the mothers leg with some pulling came free, she is helped to clim out of the wreck. She looks at each of her children and checks them over, the man on the side of the road helps the father remove what they can from the back of the van and puts it in the back of the truck, cars slowly kept going by but no police no ambulance just cold. The mother keeps looking in on her youngest son and sees there is more wrong then at frist, color changes and unconsciousness sets in his face swells and darkens, he vomits. Panic sets in to the parents, "wears the ambulance" ! The father repeats over and over. The oldest son scared for his little brother wearing no shoes because he had taken them off in the van and were now lost in the crash steps out in the road in front of a passing salt truck and it stops. He yells at the driver "my bother is dying calls a ambulance" ? He tells the boy to move out of the way and get off the road it was called the roads are bad. He refuses till he here for him self on the driver's radio that they are comeing. When he hears this he steps off the road and the truck moves on. Another hour pass's and turns to three. Finely the paramedics arrive. The police had closed the road and would not let them pass they tell the family till the salt trucks had done the hwy. They quickly examine the boys injuries and told the parents he had many broken bones. They moved the boy to a back bord and placed him in the ambulance the mother standing by the back door the older children again specks up and yell " Mom your covered in blood" ! The paramedic turns and places a presser bandage on the mothers neck. She holds it and says "I go with the police when they arrive' The police who finely showed up took three of the family in the back set of his cruiser to the hospital and the others went with the man in the truck. Reaching this small town hospital the boy was quickly worked on by the staff wile the family set in the waiting room, the mother was removed and taken to a treatment aria were she keeps calling out to the father "call the nearest church number and get someone to do a blessing. The sound of her youngest sons screams and cry's fill the air as the doctors work on him. (1:00 AM)
The oldest son sat with the family dog on his lap watching all that was going on. The only person in the waiting room was a young men in his early twenty's. He turned to the oldest child and asked "what does your mother want" ? He tells the young man that his little brother has been badly hurt and his mother wants him to have a blessing. He asked the son what faith are you? Reluctant because of treatment before he finely tells the man "we are Mormon's" the young man stood up and says "So am I will call someone right away" and leaves for a phone. The mother having faith that all that was needed was a blessing she feels safe and goes in for treatment. The father joins his wife and tells her that every thing will be aright. She asks about the other children and they booth released that they had no idea were the other two children were even the police officer did not know. They were with the man in his truck that is all they know. At that moment the man comes in the room introduce him self (Mike) and tells them the children were at his home watching TV and eating piazza. He told them he will come back for them later that there are welcome to stay at his home. He turned and left again. After a short time a elderly couple comes to the side of the mother and specks with the father. The older man and the father go to the treatment room of the boy a administered a blessing. They return and do the same with the mother and other son. After examination the mother is told that the cut on her neck had some how closed and was millimetres away for her juggler vain but the doctors could not explain the amount of blood that drenched her clothing. They removed a large piece of meddle from under the her nee cap and closed the facial cuts on the side of her face, then put the mother on crouches. The family was taken to the chapel were they waited for news of their son. Mean wile the new friend returned to pick up the older son and again said he would be back for them later. They waited. The list of injuries was long and extensive. fractured femur dislocated shoulder and elbow, broken eye socket and cheek bone, and internal injuries. He was being placed in intensive care and was not aware of what was going on. The doctors would know more in the morning when the surgeons plastic and internal saw him. The family was told there was nothing else to do for him but wait. The family went to the ICU and looked in on their son. He was covered in tubs and only one side of his face was visible. Not being allowed to stay the family was picked up by the mike and taken to his home. Were there suite case's were put away and there children sleeping on the pull out couch another room was set aside for the parents. Early the next morning the parents awoke to the sound of the laughing of there children and the smell of bacon. Mike and his girlfriend were busy making breakfast for there large group of travellers. We could not ever thank you enough the family echoes again to Mike. The other children came to the mother and says "look at the Harley mom". In the corner of the living room sat Mike's Harely large chrome and black motorcycle. Wanting to see the reaction of the parents the mother turns and said "my brother use to custom build bikes he would love this" over breakfast the two couples begin to know each other, they had been told that Mike had call the hospital that morning wile they slept and were told the doctors had not arrived yet. So with the time they had that morning they started to know each other and excepted the invitation to stay till there son could be moved.
When the parents arrived they found a large gathering of doctors out side of the ICU. The doctor of the paediatric care ward who spoke to the parents the night before told them he had no way to explain what had happened and shook his head, all their sons injuries were gone but for the fractured of their sons femur that he would required traction and a long hospital stay. The internal injuries were gone and the plastic surgeon was trying to figure out how the x-rays could change over night and nothing was there but bruising ????? They called him a miracle. It was not till after the other doctors had left that the parents were told they had waited till morning because they did not expiate their child to last through the night or though any surgery. The parents were asked if they would like to see their son. The nurse told them as they walk in to the ICU that their son scared her to death that morning, she was telling the man next to their son he would have to have juice with his rice crispys because he was not allowed milk when the voice of their son said "I would like milk with mine" she said she jumped because the staff was told he would not survive the night. He tried to sit up in bed !
That day he was taken to the regular children's floor wile the parents found away to get him home.
They stayed with the new friend till the day they went home. Mike thought at frist this family of Mormons would not want to stay with him thinking he was a biker and on the other side Mike would not want them once he know they were Mormons. Booth to this day have stayed close friends over the miles and have visited each other over the years. The young child is now 16 and stands 6 foot 4 and is still growing, their family's miracle.

So can this be evidence or be just coincidence or is it a miracle of faith ?
By the way there were only 20 members live in that small LDS (Mormons) church in that town and one was it the waiting room that night, any one want to give me odds on that?

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