Speaker 1: So after that episode aired, we received an email from
Speaker 1: somebody unexpected, a first responder who arrived at this scene
Speaker 1: that night, and this email just took my breath away.
Speaker 2: My full title is former Deputy Chief with Damer and
Speaker 2: Valley Fire Rescue.
Speaker 3: This is The Miracle Files. I'm Emily Jones.
Speaker 4: And I'm Holly Worthington.
Speaker 1: We're two sisters who love a captivating true story, but
Speaker 1: we're also seeking more light in our lives.
Speaker 3: So we're on a mission to find and share unforgettable,
Speaker 3: uplifting stories of God's miracles. We hope you'll join us
Speaker 3: on this journey.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Miracle Files. Today we're going to
Speaker 1: do something a little different. So one of the greatest
Speaker 1: blessings of doing this podcast is that we get so
Speaker 1: many miracle stories sent to us from all over the
Speaker 1: world every single day.
Speaker 3: And I love it when I get a notification on
Speaker 3: my phone a new miracle has come in, Like, I know,
Speaker 3: I'm going to open this email and find this really
Speaker 3: cool story.
Speaker 4: Yeah. But one of the hardest.
Speaker 3: Things about this job is so hard we can't tell
Speaker 3: every story. I know.
Speaker 1: We are only two people. We wish we had clones.
Speaker 1: I know somebody work on that for.
Speaker 4: It more time.
Speaker 3: We need more time, yes, but these stories have meant
Speaker 3: so much to us and we don't want to just
Speaker 3: keep them all to ourselves. No, And so we thought
Speaker 3: it would be fun to just read some of the
Speaker 3: emails that we've gotten, some of the amazing miracle stories,
Speaker 3: maybe the shorter ones that we could share with you today,
Speaker 3: just to share as many miracles as possible.
Speaker 4: Yes, okay, so let's jump in.
Speaker 1: Our first story comes from Alf Yeah like the Alien
Speaker 1: back in the day, If you guys remember that show,
Speaker 1: Alf sly Hoff who shared with us a story, a
Speaker 1: miraculous story about his three month old son, Gabe. So
Speaker 1: here's an excerpt from that email. I was sitting in
Speaker 1: my office at home doing paperwork when I paused to
Speaker 1: watch my sports show. The time was eleven thirty PM.
Speaker 1: I heard my wife shortly after moving around upstairs and
Speaker 1: then running down the stairs and opening the door to
Speaker 1: my office. She had Gabe in her arms and he
Speaker 1: was blue. His lips were blue, something that is still
Speaker 1: ingrained in my head to this day. I grabbed him
Speaker 1: and did CPR on his little three month old body.
Speaker 1: He started to breathe and was rushed to the hospital.
Speaker 1: But here's the miracle. My wife got up from a
Speaker 1: dead sleep at exactly eleven thirty and went to his
Speaker 1: crib and touched his cheek, which felt cold.
Speaker 4: And it started with what the hospital.
Speaker 1: Attendants called a miraculous event, coincidental, mother's intuition, insanely lucky,
Speaker 1: or a bunch of other stuff. But I would not
Speaker 1: have used miraculous to describe it until I checked my voicemail.
Speaker 1: My boss at the time, a great Christian man, had
Speaker 1: left me a voicemail at six that morning. Alf This
Speaker 1: may sound weird, but I just wanted to check on Gabe.
Speaker 1: I've never had a feeling like this before, but I
Speaker 1: was urged to pray for him at eleven thirty last
Speaker 1: night and just want to make sure everything is okay.
Speaker 1: The voicemail is what made it a miracle.
Speaker 4: To me.
Speaker 1: It proved the power of prayer, coincidence or any other thing.
Speaker 1: Cannot explain it other than God.
Speaker 3: Wow, what a gift to know that this was a miracle.
Speaker 3: Like obviously his wife waking up was a miracle, yeah,
Speaker 3: but then to have this extra cherry on top, to
Speaker 3: have his boss reiterate so nos yeah.
Speaker 1: And to know that it happened in exactly eleven thirty Yeah,
Speaker 1: that his boss had that feeling and his wife woke up.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, amazing, it is amazing. Okay, So our next.
Speaker 3: Email is actually a follow up to one of our episodes.
Speaker 4: Some of you may remember.
Speaker 3: Callie's story was episode fifty two, and if you don't
Speaker 3: know her story, basically, after get together with friends, she
Speaker 3: caught a ride home with someone who ended up driving
Speaker 3: over one hundred miles per hour. They crashed the car
Speaker 3: and rolled fifteen times over three hundred feet. So sad,
Speaker 3: and somehow Calli and her friend Hayley survived miraculously.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was so miraculous.
Speaker 1: And so after that episode aired, we received an email
Speaker 1: from somebody unexpected, a first responder who arrived.
Speaker 4: At this scene that night.
Speaker 1: His name is Chief Ryan Dan Brogio, and this email
Speaker 1: just took my breath away.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, So here's what it starts off with. Good afternoon,
Speaker 3: My name is Ryan. I just got finished watching episode
Speaker 3: fifty two, and I was the incident commander in the
Speaker 3: first arriving unit on that incident. That was a very
Speaker 3: traumatic incident for my on duty firefighters that night and
Speaker 3: probably when the most horrific rollovers I've seen in fifteen
Speaker 3: years on the job.
Speaker 1: And just to interject here, he also sent us a
Speaker 1: quick video describing the scene that he encountered that night.
Speaker 2: My full title is former Deputy chief with Dammer and
Speaker 2: Valley Fire Rescue. When I arrived on scene, it was
Speaker 2: a first arriving unit and we do get a lot
Speaker 2: of vehicle accidents in that general area. I at first
Speaker 2: was unable to locate the vehicle due to the location.
Speaker 2: It was located approximately one hundred one hundred and fifty
Speaker 2: yards off the roadway. It had no lights or anything
Speaker 2: like that. The motor and battery were ripped out from
Speaker 2: the engine compartment and were laying somewhere different. In my
Speaker 2: fifteen years of experience, that is the worst accident I
Speaker 2: have seen due to the trauma of the patients and
Speaker 2: the violentness of the rollover itself.
Speaker 4: Oh that's horrible.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Wait did he say a hundred fifty feet? He
Speaker 3: said one hundred and fifty yards?
Speaker 1: Oh, okay, that makes more sense because I was like,
Speaker 1: I think it was three hundred feet right, Okay.
Speaker 4: Yeah, never mind. Yeah, but it's crazy.
Speaker 3: I mean, he talks about how horrific this accident is
Speaker 3: and the fact that anyone survived it was amazing. But
Speaker 3: he didn't really know what happened to the people who
Speaker 3: were in the car until he listened to this episode
Speaker 3: on our podcast. And so here's what the rest of
Speaker 3: his email says. I just want to express that I
Speaker 3: have shared your interview with those firefighters and they are
Speaker 3: grateful to know the story after we sent the patients
Speaker 3: to the hospital. One thing with our job is that
Speaker 3: we never truly know what happens after the rescue is made.
Speaker 3: So I appreciate it. Thank you for that that wow,
Speaker 3: so cool, so cool, and that he found it.
Speaker 1: We don't think about that sometimes, that these guys don't
Speaker 1: get to hear what happened after the fact because of
Speaker 1: all the hip us stuff, and they don't get to
Speaker 1: know what happens to the people that they help after
Speaker 1: the fact.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and yeah, they're probably a part of so many
Speaker 3: miracles that they're just not even aware of. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think it's kind of a miracle in
Speaker 1: and of itself that they came across this episode so
Speaker 1: that he could share this with the first responders that
Speaker 1: were there that night. And I agree, who bless so
Speaker 1: many lives with their courage and bravery. And you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes we have people say things like, well, was it
Speaker 1: God or was it the first responders? And I always
Speaker 1: say two things can be true, you know both exactly
Speaker 1: for sure.
Speaker 4: I think they were hand in hand.
Speaker 1: And I think those first responders are definitely angels in
Speaker 1: a lot of people's lives.
Speaker 4: Yeah, thank you for what you do. Everyone absolutely Okay.
Speaker 3: So our next story comes from a woman named Nancy
Speaker 3: Palmer from Nova Scotia, Canada, and Nancy wrote, my husband David, myself,
Speaker 3: and a number of family members attended the Christmas Eve
Speaker 3: Mass at our church. After the mess, we both lingered behind,
Speaker 3: wishing some parishioners a merry Christmas, and by the time
Speaker 3: we left the church, most people were already gone on
Speaker 3: their way. The roads were very quiet that evening, and
Speaker 3: it was dark and cold and snowing. We approached an
Speaker 3: intersection and came upon a red light, so of course
Speaker 3: we were slowing down to make a stop. Just before
Speaker 3: we completely stopped, we felt a very loud bang from
Speaker 3: our vehicle. We had absolutely no idea what it was,
Speaker 3: but because we were almost to a stop, we were
Speaker 3: at least safe. We quickly discovered that whatever had happened,
Speaker 3: our car wouldn't drive. We looked at each other and thought,
Speaker 3: what do we do on a late Christmas Eve businesses
Speaker 3: closed and stuck in an intersection. We didn't get much
Speaker 3: of an opportunity to react, because a moment later, a
Speaker 3: gentleman knocked on our window asking if we needed help.
Speaker 3: Turns out he was driving a tow truck. We told
Speaker 3: him what had happened, and he insisted on towing our
Speaker 3: car back to our home. He had his fiance in
Speaker 3: his truck, so there was no room for us, but
Speaker 3: we gave him our address and he towed it home.
Speaker 3: Immediately behind the tow truck was a city police vehicle.
Speaker 3: The officer got out to see what was happening, and
Speaker 3: he helped the tow truck driver get our vehicle ready
Speaker 3: to tow, and had his police lights on to make
Speaker 3: sure everyone was safe on the dark roads. Coincidentally, our
Speaker 3: vehicle died one city block away from my parents' home,
Speaker 3: and they had a spare car we could use over
Speaker 3: the Christmas season, as most businesses would be closed during
Speaker 3: the season. We believe that the way the breakdown unfolded
Speaker 3: was a little miracle. We left the church. Our car
Speaker 3: broke down while we were driving very slow, so we
Speaker 3: were safe. A tow truck was immediately behind us and
Speaker 3: insisted on helping us. A police car was directly behind
Speaker 3: him and was able to offer assistance. And our vehicle
Speaker 3: broke down just by my parents' house, so we were
Speaker 3: able to access another car easily. The transmission died in
Speaker 3: our car in that moment, but everything lined up too
Speaker 3: perfectly for it to not have been a miracle.
Speaker 1: I love that, and I love both the simplicity of
Speaker 1: this story, but I also love that they acknowledge that
Speaker 1: it's a miracle.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, I mean not every miracle is like
Speaker 3: a life or death situation. I think they just recognize
Speaker 3: that God helped them on this Christmas evening, and yeah.
Speaker 4: They're on little Christmas miracle for sure.
Speaker 3: And I think that when we recognize miracles, we start
Speaker 3: to notice them all around us and experience them.
Speaker 1: So important to recognize these moments and not just write
Speaker 1: them off as coincidence.
Speaker 4: Yeahtely Okay.
Speaker 1: So this next story is from a man named Gary,
Speaker 1: and it's another one where he felt guided and protected
Speaker 1: while he was driving too in two thousand and six,
Speaker 1: I was going through a tough divorce, and I went
Speaker 1: through a period of days without sleeping more than an
Speaker 1: hour or two. I was on a two hour drive
Speaker 1: late at night, returning home on I eighty five between
Speaker 1: North Carolina and Virginia.
Speaker 4: Last thing I recall before falling.
Speaker 1: Asleep was there was absolutely no cars in sight, and
Speaker 1: I was in the right lane. When I woke up,
Speaker 1: my hands were in my lap and I saw the
Speaker 1: wheel moving slightly left. As I jerked awake, I looked up.
Speaker 1: I was passing a car on the left and there
Speaker 1: were a couple of other cars in front of that one.
Speaker 1: I then grabbed the steering wheel, composed myself, and realized
Speaker 1: what had just occurred. After contemplating what happened over the
Speaker 1: following days, I truly believe there was no other explanation
Speaker 1: than an angel. Perhaps my guardian angel intervened and steered
Speaker 1: me away from a terrible accident that night. Wow, that
Speaker 1: reminds me of when Mom. Do you remember Mom's story
Speaker 1: when she was driving and she fell asleep, And it's
Speaker 1: kind of funny. Her story cracks me up because she
Speaker 1: felt like somebody slapped her in the face and woke
Speaker 1: her up.
Speaker 4: So I have not even heard this story. Oh you haven't. No,
Speaker 4: you have to ask her about it.
Speaker 1: She literally says someone slapped her in the face and
Speaker 1: woke her up. And I'm like, okay, apparently that is
Speaker 1: sometimes Guardian Angel slap you in the face if they
Speaker 1: had to.
Speaker 3: But yeah, it is such a sweet story because obviously
Speaker 3: he's going through this very vulnerable time in his life
Speaker 3: and to just have that little reminder that.
Speaker 4: God is sticking out for you. God will still be
Speaker 4: a part of Yes.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I think that's why we experience these things. It's
Speaker 1: just kind of that, as people say a godwink, you know,
Speaker 1: God is saying, hey, I'm here, I got you.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, Okay, So we have one more story to share
Speaker 3: with you. This last story was submitted by Lacey Mick
Speaker 3: Menimon Menimon, I Menemon.
Speaker 4: Sorry, we slaughtered your name. I'm sorry. I'm sure I'm
Speaker 4: pronouncing it wrong. I'm so sorry, Lacey.
Speaker 3: But this is an excerpt from her email describing a
Speaker 3: miracle that her five year old son, Jaden experienced. Lacey wrote,
Speaker 3: on February two, twenty thirteen, we were at home preparing
Speaker 3: for my dad's birthday celebration. Jaden kept complaining that his
Speaker 3: tummy hurt, but I initially thought he was just trying
Speaker 3: to avoid doing his chores. Valid As the day progressed, however,
Speaker 3: pain got worse to the point where he couldn't stand
Speaker 3: up straight and bent over double. When my husband returned,
Speaker 3: we both agreed Jaden needed to be seen, so my
Speaker 3: husband took him straight to mary Bridge Children's Hospital. The
Speaker 3: birthday party went on as planned, but beneath the celebration,
Speaker 3: we were all worried and waiting to hear what was happening.
Speaker 3: When the call finally came in, my husband delivered the
Speaker 3: news that shattered our world. The doctors had found a
Speaker 3: mass in Jaden's abdomen. Oh no, we were completely devastated
Speaker 3: and shocked. Up until that phone call, we thought the
Speaker 3: worst case scenario was just pendicitis without hesitation. We rushed
Speaker 3: to the hospital to be by his side. When we
Speaker 3: arrived and walked into his ear room, we witnessed something
Speaker 3: that can only be described as a profound intervening by God.
Speaker 3: Jaden was bouncing off the walls, running around, chatting happily
Speaker 3: with his grandparents, and playing with the small toys and
Speaker 3: krans the nurses had given him. The excruciating pain that
Speaker 3: had left him bent doubled over just an hour before
Speaker 3: was completely gone, passing like temporary gas pains. If we
Speaker 3: had hesitated for even ten minutes at home, thinking he
Speaker 3: was fine, or choosing to wait and see, the pain
Speaker 3: would have subsided and we would never have detected the cancer.
Speaker 3: God perfectly orchestrated the timing of that pain, making sure
Speaker 3: it flared up exactly when it did so we could
Speaker 3: take him to the hospital and from there.
Speaker 1: Jaden underwent an intense battle with stage four Wilm's tumor,
Speaker 1: including surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation, and despite the severity and
Speaker 1: the spread of the cancer, his body responded remarkably well.
Speaker 1: Tumors shrank significantly, Surgeons were able to remove the effect
Speaker 1: of kidney and remaining cancer, and treatment continued for eight
Speaker 1: to nine months until he was declared cancer free.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 1: Lacey describes his recovery as nothing short of miraculous, writing
Speaker 1: today he is a happy, thriving, nineteen year old senior,
Speaker 1: graduating and ready to take on life, all thanks to God.
Speaker 1: It's a miracle beyond human understanding. This complete healing is
Speaker 1: one hundred percent the work of God, who orchestrated everything
Speaker 1: to spare his life.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, I can mean imagine a five year old boy
Speaker 3: with stage four cancer so hard, that is so tragic,
Speaker 3: and yet God did everything he could to let them
Speaker 3: know in time so they were able to save his way.
Speaker 1: Clearly, this little guy's story was not done being written yet.
Speaker 4: No, not at all.
Speaker 1: But let me say, we do know that there are
Speaker 1: those of you out there that are hoping for a
Speaker 1: miracle and we are praying for you or praying with you.
Speaker 1: Contact us and let us know what you're going through too,
Speaker 1: and we will, we truly will pray for you. But
Speaker 1: also for those of you who are going through something
Speaker 1: where you don't receive the miracle, because we've all had
Speaker 1: those moments too where the miracle doesn't come. I just
Speaker 1: want to reader that God is still part of your
Speaker 1: story too, and he's still aware of you, and he
Speaker 1: still loves you, and he is still good no matter what.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and sometimes it's in his timing and sometimes it
Speaker 3: merely is just helping you get through a really hard
Speaker 3: time and giving you hold and comfort in those hard moments.
Speaker 4: So absolutely agree, God is always good.
Speaker 1: Well, this is just a glimpse of the many miraculous
Speaker 1: stories that arrive in our inbox every week, So we
Speaker 1: truly hope that you have enjoyed this. If you've enjoyed
Speaker 1: this format, please let us know. We'd love to do
Speaker 1: more of these in the future if you did enjoy it.
Speaker 1: And just to end on a lighter note and leave
Speaker 1: you with a little laugh, we want to read you
Speaker 1: a few of the funny aka mean messages that we
Speaker 1: have gotten over the years.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's no miracles.
Speaker 1: We've had to grow some really thick skin from this podcast.
Speaker 3: Yeah okay, So here are some of the kind of
Speaker 3: funny mean messages that we've gotten.
Speaker 4: Hopefully this gives you laugh.
Speaker 3: The first one is this was really interesting to listen to,
Speaker 3: except for the two chicks voices are horrible. I want
Speaker 3: to stab myself in the ears to make it stop.
Speaker 3: Imagine being married to them and having to listen to
Speaker 3: that all day.
Speaker 4: Imagine being married to them.
Speaker 3: It must be the worst four husbands they have to
Speaker 3: listen to us all the two.
Speaker 4: So sorry, honey that my voice is so awful. Okay,
Speaker 4: here's another one.
Speaker 3: Uh, your thumbnail needs to be about the story, not
Speaker 3: YouTube dorks.
Speaker 4: That's probably true.
Speaker 3: Logo looks like two sad pumpy dogs begging for food.
Speaker 4: And we did change our logo after that.
Speaker 1: Just that was our old logo. I don't know if
Speaker 1: our new one's any better, but hey, we try.
Speaker 3: And then the last one says it's pronounced lure. Sure,
Speaker 3: great story, but I mean, come on, who doesn't know
Speaker 3: how to pronounce the word lure?
Speaker 4: Apparently us? Since wen I'm not a fisherman. Sorry, I'll
Speaker 4: say it better next time. Next time she will say lure.
Speaker 4: But yeah, we do get.
Speaker 3: A lot of positive messages too, don't worry.
Speaker 1: We do, and thank you to those of you who
Speaker 1: send us nice messages because those help us to keep.
Speaker 4: Going when we have got a few not so nice ones.
Speaker 3: They mean so much to us they do keep from coming. Yes,
Speaker 3: we want to thank you guys for joining us today,
Speaker 3: and we want to thank everyone who has sent us
Speaker 3: miracle stories.
Speaker 4: Yes, please keep sending them in.
Speaker 3: Yeah, your experiences have strengthened our faith and brought us
Speaker 3: so much hope and reminded us that God is still
Speaker 3: doing miracles today.
Speaker 4: Yes, thank you for joining us.
Speaker 1: If you have a miracle to share, contact us at
Speaker 1: the Miracle files dot com or find.
Speaker 4: Us on social media. We release new episodes each Monday.
Speaker 3: Yes, so don't forget Miracle Mondays. Subscribe on your favorite
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Speaker 1: Join us next time as we discover more of God's miracles,
Speaker 1: and don't forget to look for his light in your
Speaker 1: own lives.