Speaker 1: She undergoes surgery, and when she wakes up from surgery,
Speaker 1: a nurse tells her some devastating news. She's losing too
Speaker 1: much blood and if she fills up one more drainage bag,
Speaker 1: she's not going to make it. And as you can imagine,
Speaker 1: she's just devastated and terrified. She tries to call her husband.
Speaker 1: He's not picking up his phone, so she just breaks
Speaker 1: down in tears and she starts pleading with God to
Speaker 1: spare her life.
Speaker 2: This is the Miracle Files.
Speaker 3: I'm Emily Jones and I'm Holly Worthington. We're two sisters
Speaker 3: who love a captivating true story, but we're also seeking
Speaker 3: more light in our lives.
Speaker 1: So we're on a mission to find and share unforgettable,
Speaker 1: uplifting stories of God's miracles. We hope you'll join us
Speaker 1: on this journey.
Speaker 3: Welcome back to the Miracle Files. Not long ago, we
Speaker 3: decided to do something a little different. So we get
Speaker 3: so many miracle stories sent to us, and they are
Speaker 3: so incredible and we honestly cannot share them all. But
Speaker 3: we want to share them all, so we're going to
Speaker 3: do everything we can to share as many as possible.
Speaker 3: So in an effort to do that, we decided to
Speaker 3: read some of the miracle stories again sent to us
Speaker 3: through email, and the response has been incredible.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it really has.
Speaker 1: And so we've heard from a lot of you that
Speaker 1: you just love to hear more miracle stories, and so
Speaker 1: we're going to.
Speaker 2: Do it again.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna do it again.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So today we've picked out five amazing stories that were
Speaker 3: sent in by our listeners and we cannot wait to
Speaker 3: share them with you.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Oh guy, So let's jump in.
Speaker 1: Our first miracle story was sent to us by Pamela Parr.
Speaker 1: Pamela writes on September sixth, twenty sixteen, I was leaving
Speaker 1: work in the small town of Saint Cloud, Wisconsin, just
Speaker 1: like I had every other night. As I was about
Speaker 1: to cross the road to my car, I heard the
Speaker 1: voice of my grandfather telling me put your phone in
Speaker 1: your pocket and don't touch it. It caught me off guard,
Speaker 1: but I did exactly what the voice said. I figured
Speaker 1: it was a warning that something unusual was about to happen.
Speaker 1: As I drove home, the fog became thicker and thicker,
Speaker 1: until I could barely see a foot in front of
Speaker 1: my headlights. I slowed way down because I knew the
Speaker 1: road was full of sharp turns. About ten minutes into
Speaker 1: the drive, a large pickup truck came over the hill
Speaker 1: with bright lights mounted on the hood and its high
Speaker 1: beams on. The driver flashed both sets of lights directly
Speaker 1: at me. I was completely blinded. I tried to pull
Speaker 1: over while waiting for my vision to return. Just as
Speaker 1: I thought I had reached the side of the road,
Speaker 1: I crashed head on.
Speaker 2: Into a tree.
Speaker 3: Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1: At first I didn't realize how badly I was hurt.
Speaker 1: I tried to get out of the car, but the
Speaker 1: moment I stood up, I couldn't put any weight onto
Speaker 1: my right leg and collapsed onto the ground beside my car.
Speaker 1: That's when I remembered what I had heard before leaving work.
Speaker 1: I pulled my phone out of my pocket, called nine
Speaker 1: one one and tried to explain where I was. I
Speaker 1: told them I thought I had broken my hip and
Speaker 1: that I was lying beside the driver's door. Then I
Speaker 1: blacked out.
Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, that gives me chills. Yeah, I cannot imagine.
Speaker 3: Although I did get in a head on collision once,
Speaker 3: and I did not have my cell phone with me
Speaker 3: and in my situation. I had two angel women stop
Speaker 3: and help me, and they called nine one one. But
Speaker 3: in her situation, it is such a blessing that she
Speaker 3: had her phone near her in her pocket.
Speaker 1: I know there's like fog, no one can see her,
Speaker 1: No one knows that this has happened to her. And
Speaker 1: you think if she hadn't listened to the impression, maybe
Speaker 1: if she was holding her phone, or if she had
Speaker 1: it in the cup holder or something, it probably would
Speaker 1: have flown away and she, yeah, wouldn't have been able
Speaker 1: to call nine one one. So amazing that she listened
Speaker 1: to that impression. But her story does not end there,
Speaker 1: so to continue on. The first responders arrive and they
Speaker 1: take her to the hospital. She's super injured. She's got
Speaker 1: broken fingers, she's broken her hip, she's broken her nose.
Speaker 1: But her worst injury is her femur has disconnected from
Speaker 1: her hip and it has been pushed up into her body.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, awful. So she undergoes surgery, and when
Speaker 1: she wakes up from surgery, a nurse tells her some
Speaker 1: devastating news. She's losing too much blood and if she
Speaker 1: fills up one more drainage bag, she's not going to
Speaker 1: make it.
Speaker 3: Oh no.
Speaker 1: And as you can imagine, she's just devastated and terrified.
Speaker 2: She tries to call her husband.
Speaker 1: He's not picking up his phone, and so she just
Speaker 1: breaks down in tears and she starts pleading with God
Speaker 1: to spare her life and to allow her to continue
Speaker 1: to live here with her husband. And here's what she
Speaker 1: said happen next. I drifted into a deep sleep. That's
Speaker 1: when I saw a bright white light shining on me.
Speaker 1: What I didn't know was that shortly after I fell asleep,
Speaker 1: the nurses call woke my husband. He began praying the
Speaker 1: exact same prayer, that I wouldn't die and that we
Speaker 1: would get to spend the rest of our lives together.
Speaker 1: The next morning, I woke up. The nurse who had
Speaker 1: warned me the night before, came back to empty the
Speaker 1: drains one last time before the end of her shift.
Speaker 1: Instead of filling with blood, there were only two drops
Speaker 1: across all four drains. The bleeding had completely stopped. The
Speaker 1: doctors were in shock. They ordered X rays, CT scans,
Speaker 1: every test they could perform from my hospital bed. They
Speaker 1: couldn't understand how I had gone from bleeding out to
Speaker 1: not bleeding into the drains at all. Without a doubt
Speaker 1: in my mind, I know I am only here because
Speaker 1: of the miracle God prefer formed that night.
Speaker 3: What a miracle and so amazing that they were praying
Speaker 3: the same prayer at the exact same time. I think
Speaker 3: there is so much power in that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and obviously she had a long road to recovery,
Speaker 1: but she's so grateful that her prayers were answered and
Speaker 1: she gets to be here with her husband and they
Speaker 1: get to live their lives together.
Speaker 2: So amazing. That is a beautiful story. Okay.
Speaker 3: This next story was sent in by Karing Gotchel. Hopefully
Speaker 3: I pronounce that right. And this is a story she
Speaker 3: shared about her brother Mark about two years ago. In
Speaker 3: August of twenty twenty four. My brother Mark was out
Speaker 3: jogging on the boardwalk. When he finished his run, he
Speaker 3: sat down on a bench. Then he collapsed. His heart
Speaker 3: had stopped. But that's when God started putting every piece
Speaker 3: into place. An older couple who took care of the
Speaker 3: flowers nearby just happened to be there. They had finished dinner,
Speaker 3: and the wife suggested they leave the dishes and go
Speaker 3: water the plants, something they would normally never do. They
Speaker 3: immediately saw Mark collapse and rushed over. A woman renting
Speaker 3: the house on the corner just happened to be outside
Speaker 3: and saw the commotion. Her daughter in law, Samantha, is
Speaker 3: a nurse. She called to her, and Samantha later said
Speaker 3: she felt compelled drawn to run outside. She immediately started CPR.
Speaker 1: Yes, so another story where a nurse or doctor or
Speaker 1: first responder just happens to be there at the right place,
Speaker 1: right time, right seeing all the time.
Speaker 3: Just wait because there's more to this story. And as
Speaker 3: we've learned, CPR is incredibly exhausting to perform. But thankfully
Speaker 3: Samantha didn't have to do CPR by herself. Within minutes,
Speaker 3: another nurse who just lived a couple houses away showed
Speaker 3: up and they began to switch off back and forth.
Speaker 3: And as it happens, police officers were already nearby responding
Speaker 3: to another call, and they have a defibrillator. And then
Speaker 3: an anomyshesiologist shows up who just happens to live across
Speaker 3: the street.
Speaker 1: This is the neighborhood I want to be in, right
Speaker 1: if I member were in trouble.
Speaker 3: Yeah, seriously, if you need medical attention, this is the
Speaker 3: place to be. So the anesthesiologist also goes on to
Speaker 3: help the police. He's a breathing apparatus that gets oxygen
Speaker 3: to Mark. And basically all these people come together. They're
Speaker 3: where they need to be to help save Mark's life.
Speaker 3: And this is what Karen said happened. Against all odds,
Speaker 3: they brought him back.
Speaker 2: Mark was rushed to.
Speaker 3: The hospital, where doctors discovered he needed triple bypass surgery.
Speaker 3: Today he's doing great. Looking back, we don't see coincidences.
Speaker 3: We see miracles. The older couple who never would have
Speaker 3: gone out that evening, Samantha was home when her family
Speaker 3: was supposed to be out for dinner. Paige, a trioge nurse,
Speaker 3: was home to help a CPR. The anesthesiologist was close
Speaker 3: enough to save Mark's brain. Every person arrived exactly when
Speaker 3: they were needed. My nieces Be, who works as a
Speaker 3: nurse in the cardiac unit, told us, you don't understand
Speaker 3: what a miracle it is that he survived. People that
Speaker 3: have a cardiac arrest in hospitals don't often survive. That's
Speaker 3: why we know God was there long before anyone else arrived.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: I love that she gave the glory to God, because
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously all these people are heroes. But I
Speaker 1: feel like God pieced this together all the pieces. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so that he was able to have a full medical
Speaker 1: team right there on the side of the road.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know.
Speaker 3: And Mark didn't remember anything about this afterwards, but he
Speaker 3: was able to eventually go and thank every one of
Speaker 3: those strangers that were there that day that helps us
Speaker 3: to save his life.
Speaker 2: So cool that it wasn't just one, it was so
Speaker 2: many of.
Speaker 3: Them, so many.
Speaker 1: Okay, So our next story comes from twenty four year
Speaker 1: old Kylie Bangerter.
Speaker 2: Again hopefully I'm saying that right.
Speaker 1: She and her husband jac were snorkeling in Hawaii and
Speaker 1: they were just out exploring a big rock.
Speaker 2: And she grew up.
Speaker 1: Swimming, so she was a really good swimmer. But he didn't,
Speaker 1: so he wasn't a super strong swimmer, so he's really
Speaker 1: just kind of practicing swimming as he was out there.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, And they didn't notice the winds shifting and
Speaker 1: the currents changing. So Kylie writes, I popped my head
Speaker 1: up and these white waves just kept crashing over us.
Speaker 1: I looked at my husband and he said, we have
Speaker 1: to start swimming to the edge. So I started kicking
Speaker 1: and swimming, not quite in panic mode. Yet, but I
Speaker 1: wasn't getting anywhere. I looked at him and saw him
Speaker 1: starting to panic. One thing about him is he doesn't panic.
Speaker 1: He's always calm in difficult situations. That's when it became
Speaker 1: very clear, very fast, that there was nowhere to go.
Speaker 1: There was no rock to grab onto, nowhere to stand
Speaker 1: in the fifty foot deep water. My heart just dropped.
Speaker 1: Then everything happened so fast. We got pulled into a riptide.
Speaker 1: Rock disappeared, he got caught in the waves above me,
Speaker 1: and I got pulled into an undertow. It felt like
Speaker 1: being trapped inside a washing machine. I was trying to
Speaker 1: catch every breath I could, but honestly, I wasn't worried
Speaker 1: about me. I was worried about him. I started praying
Speaker 1: harder than I ever had before. I said, God, please
Speaker 1: save him. He has so much he still needs to do.
Speaker 1: I love him, He's my best friend. Please save him.
Speaker 1: I don't care if I make it. I'm okay. Please
Speaker 1: take me instead and save him. There wasn't even a
Speaker 1: second thought. I immediately found peace with dying, but I
Speaker 1: just couldn't bear the thought of watching my best friend
Speaker 1: die while I couldn't do anything to help.
Speaker 2: Him.
Speaker 1: Things started to fade, and my chest started to burn
Speaker 1: as water filled my lungs. I stopped trying to swim,
Speaker 1: and for a moment it felt like I was slipping away.
Speaker 1: I remembered the p well I loved in the life
Speaker 1: I'd been given, and I just felt grateful. Then everything changed.
Speaker 1: I can't really explain what happened next, but it felt
Speaker 1: like home. All the panic disappeared. I felt completely surrounded.
Speaker 1: It was warm, it was peaceful. Then suddenly it was gone.
Speaker 1: A wave pulled me up just long enough to catch
Speaker 1: a breath. Jace caught a breath too, but he was
Speaker 1: still struggling. We had been pulled so far out that
Speaker 1: I couldn't even see the rock anymore. I closed my
Speaker 1: eyes and prayed the same prayer one more time.
Speaker 2: Then boom, A.
Speaker 1: Huge wave picked us up and threw us straight into
Speaker 1: the lava rock. We thought we drifted far away from
Speaker 1: The rock was covered in sea urchins, and they went
Speaker 1: into my knee and all over my body. But I
Speaker 1: didn't care. I had something to hold onto the painment.
Speaker 2: I was alive.
Speaker 1: Jace tried to climb on top of the rock, but
Speaker 1: another wave ripped him away. I was about to go
Speaker 1: after him when another wave hit me and suddenly he
Speaker 1: was standing on.
Speaker 2: Top of the rock.
Speaker 1: Later, he told me he felt someone grab him or
Speaker 1: push him up onto the rock. He said he didn't
Speaker 1: have the strength to do it himself. We both knew
Speaker 1: in that moment that God had saved our lives.
Speaker 3: Oh my goodness. When she was talking about like God
Speaker 3: taking her life instead of his life because she loved
Speaker 3: him so much and he was our best friend.
Speaker 2: Oh, she cared way more about him.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, I would feel the same way about
Speaker 3: my husband, and that just that's heartbreaking but amazing that
Speaker 3: they received that miracle. I'm so grateful.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I also really liked the part where she
Speaker 1: said it felt like home, like she had that same piece.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Everybody talks about that peace.
Speaker 3: YEA.
Speaker 2: Such a blessing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, such a blessing. And I'm so grateful they both
Speaker 3: making it onto that rock.
Speaker 2: I know me too, Okay.
Speaker 3: The next story was submitted to us by Louise Royam Royanne.
Speaker 3: I'm so sorry. Why do these names have to be
Speaker 3: so pronounced?
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 3: Her family was traveling on vacation. Her four year old son, Dexter,
Speaker 3: was taken to the er where their family received the
Speaker 3: worst news. Dexter was diagnosed with chronic Myalloyd leukemia. And
Speaker 3: obviously that's a devastating diagnosis at any age, but to
Speaker 3: receive that at four years old, I can't even imagine heartbreaking.
Speaker 3: But she says they immediately began to see miracles. So
Speaker 3: here's what she said. We were away on family holiday
Speaker 3: in a completely different town when everything happened. The doctor
Speaker 3: at the r was only at that hospital for one day.
Speaker 3: Her son goes to the same school as our son,
Speaker 3: and she called ahead, which I'm assuming means that called
Speaker 3: another doctor's office so that he could get diagnosed right away.
Speaker 3: Looking back, it felt like God had every detailed plan
Speaker 3: before we even knew what was happening at the At
Speaker 3: the same time, my uncle was fighting his own battle
Speaker 3: with cancer. He's also a priest. He helped guide me
Speaker 3: through the anger and heartbreak of everything we were facing.
Speaker 3: The prayer network that surrounded our little boy was incredible.
Speaker 3: People in South Africa were praying, His auntie in America
Speaker 3: was praying, friends in India, family in Australia and London,
Speaker 3: friends of friends in Dubai and Hong Kong, and all
Speaker 3: of their families too. The power of collective prayer is limitless.
Speaker 3: Even while feeling so awful, Dexter always had a smile
Speaker 3: on his face. Even while he was in the hospital.
Speaker 3: He would ask me, are you okay? That was just
Speaker 3: who he was, even in the middle of his own suffering,
Speaker 3: he was thinking about everyone else. Today, Dexter is still
Speaker 3: the same loving little boy. Recently he asked me, can
Speaker 3: we please be the homeless? So that's exactly what we did.
Speaker 3: Through everything he's been through, his heart has remained full
Speaker 3: of compassion, and that to me is a miracle too.
Speaker 2: It's amazing that this sweet little boy who's going through
Speaker 2: such hard things is thinking about other people. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: how to serve other people.
Speaker 1: I think sometimes that's like what happens when you go
Speaker 1: through really hard things, is that you have developed apathy.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3: And we had another listener named Brittany Luccerini right in
Speaker 3: and she said, make sure you think about the fact
Speaker 3: that it's not just that you get comforted in the
Speaker 3: midst of these trials. That's not the only miracle, but
Speaker 3: there's also all sorts of little miracles that take place
Speaker 3: in the midst of our trials. And she's so right,
Speaker 3: like a lot of the miracles that take place are
Speaker 3: in our hearts during these times.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, my father in law passed away from cancer,
Speaker 1: and cancer is just it's the.
Speaker 2: Worst, it's the hardest thing.
Speaker 1: But I can tell you that we experienced so many
Speaker 1: miracles along the way, and I could go through all
Speaker 1: of the individual ones, but there were a lot of them.
Speaker 1: And yeah, I'm just grateful for those little signs that
Speaker 1: we knew that God was aware of us.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so true.
Speaker 2: And here's our final story for today.
Speaker 1: This story comes from Melanie Linum and this is one
Speaker 1: about pregnancy, So if that's a sensitive subject for you,
Speaker 1: just fair warning. But Melanie is working as a pastor
Speaker 1: in Australia and she became pregnant and she and her
Speaker 1: husband Dan were just so excited. And here's an excer
Speaker 1: from her email. At our twenty week growth scan, the
Speaker 1: sonographer took a long time and said he was having
Speaker 1: trouble looking at all four chambers of the baby's heart.
Speaker 1: He suggested I get up and move around to try
Speaker 1: and reposition the baby. I laughed and joked as I
Speaker 1: stood up, leaning forward and wiggling to try and move
Speaker 1: the baby. I had no suspicion that anything was wrong.
Speaker 1: The next day, my doctor called and referred me to
Speaker 1: a specialist scan in Brisbane. Honestly, I still wasn't worried.
Speaker 1: Three weeks later, the fetal cardiologists spent a long time scanning.
Speaker 1: Part Way through he took a call just outside the door,
Speaker 1: which I overheard about a baby needing heart surgery at
Speaker 1: just six weeks of age. I turned to Dan and
Speaker 1: whispered in sympathy. Imagine that the cardiologist came back in
Speaker 1: and said, do you know your baby has a small
Speaker 1: right heart. We were shocked, no, I answered. He led
Speaker 1: us into another room and returned with another doctor. What
Speaker 1: I'm about to tell you will be difficult to hear.
Speaker 1: Your baby has pulmonary atresia, a hypoplastic tricuspid valve, and
Speaker 1: hypoplastic right heart syndrome. He explained that the pulmonary heart
Speaker 1: valve was completely blocked up, causing the right heart to
Speaker 1: be small. He told us our baby would need heart
Speaker 1: surgery at three days old, then two more surgeries before
Speaker 1: the age of three. He said quality of life would
Speaker 1: likely be low, and we could choose termination or palliative care.
Speaker 1: I answered immediately, we choose the operation. Don't answer straight away,
Speaker 1: think about it, he said. Then he left us alone.
Speaker 1: Dan and I cried in each other's arms. Then Dan
Speaker 1: said two words that changed everything.
Speaker 2: But God.
Speaker 1: The next few weeks were painful. Every appointment brought more
Speaker 1: bad news. The baby was small. They said, if the
Speaker 1: baby is too small, the baby will die. We sat
Speaker 1: down with our pastors and tearfully told them the news.
Speaker 1: I said to them, but I know that God knows
Speaker 1: this baby. He knows if they're a boy or a girl,
Speaker 1: and he knows them by name. Our whole church prayed
Speaker 1: and stood in faith with us. We chose to give
Speaker 1: God every opportunity to do a miracle. We put our
Speaker 1: trust in him. We trusted in his goodness, in his love,
Speaker 1: and ultimately that whether our child lived or died, he
Speaker 1: was sovereign and good. A scripture I held on to
Speaker 1: was Psalm one fifteen fourteen. Made the Lord caused you
Speaker 1: to flourish both you and your children. I would place
Speaker 1: my hands over my belly and say, flourish, baby, flourish
Speaker 1: in Jesus' name. Three weeks before her scheduled see section,
Speaker 1: the final scan still showed she only weighed about one
Speaker 1: point five kilograms and the right heart was about fifty
Speaker 1: percent the size of the left heart. We continue to
Speaker 1: believe in God for a miracle. The day she was born,
Speaker 1: we didn't even have the car seat in the car.
Speaker 1: We didn't know if she would live. She was born
Speaker 1: full term, weighing two point twenty six kilograms, a girl.
Speaker 1: We named her Isabella Faith. Hours later, the pediatric cardiologist
Speaker 1: came into our room after doing an ultrasound. I interrupted,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, the right heart is meant to be
Speaker 1: half the size of the left heart. Well it isn't
Speaker 1: he answered, It's almost the same size as the left heart.
Speaker 1: The pulmonary valve that had been completely blocked up is
Speaker 1: now open, although narrow, there were also two new holes
Speaker 1: strategically placed that allowed blood to flow properly and bought
Speaker 1: Isabella time to grow before surgery. We had received a
Speaker 1: creative miracle. Instead of spending the estimated five months in hospital,
Speaker 1: she was only there for three weeks. Then we got
Speaker 1: to bring our baby home. At eight months old, Bella
Speaker 1: had a total heart repair. When I brought her back
Speaker 1: to our doctor, she announced to the staff, Look, this
Speaker 1: is the miracle.
Speaker 2: Baby.
Speaker 3: I love that. Oh my goodness, that one gave me
Speaker 3: goose bumps.
Speaker 2: I know another amazing miracle, so.
Speaker 3: Powerful they're faith. I'm just so inspired by all of that.
Speaker 2: I know faith. I know it's very incredible. She didn't
Speaker 2: give up.
Speaker 3: I wore my little mustard seed necklace on the right day.
Speaker 3: I'm telling you.
Speaker 2: I know a lot of examples of great faith. Wow.
Speaker 2: And today Bella is a healthy twelve year old girl.
Speaker 3: Yea.
Speaker 1: I love that they named her Isabella Faith because it's
Speaker 1: just perfect.
Speaker 3: Name for her, for her mom showed so much faith.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, all right.
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Speaker 3: See you then, thank you for joining us. If you
Speaker 3: have a miracle to share, contact us at the miraclefiles
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