4 Modern Miracles You Forgot About

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Most people think of miracles as incredible events that took place long ago. They assume that miracles no longer happen today. This, however, is incorrect. Miracles continue to happen today. Part of the reason modern miracles are overlooked, however, has to do with what most people think of when they hear the word “miracle.” For most people, a miracle is something big and flashy. It is flowing lava that mysteriously parts around a home and then converges on the other side of the house. It is a lightning strike that hits a would-be murderer and saves a parent and child. Such events are undoubtedly miraculous, but they are not the only sorts of miracles that occur today. Some miracles are small and quiet. There are also a number of miracles that made use of human intervention. These are the sort of miracles like when a sinking boat does not suddenly empty of water but another boat appears out of nowhere to rescue the passengers. Such events tend to make up the bulk of modern miracles but the human element of them often leaves third party observers unaware that they have just witnessed a miracle. As a result, miracles sometimes get overlooked such as these four modern miracles.

Voice of an Angel

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In March 2015, 25 year old Lynn Jennifer Groesbeck ran off the road into the Spanish Fork River in Utah. Groesbeck’s 18 month old daughter, Lily, was in the backseat. More than 12 hours after the original accident, first responders heard a voice calling for help from the inside of the car. The voice did not sound like a child and could not have belonged to Groesbeck as she was already dead at the time and likely had been since the impact. Still, the first responders investigated. What they found was Lily suspended upside down inches above the freezing water. She was still alive. The water was so cold that rescuers had to work in shifts as each person could only stay in the river for short periods of time. Eventually, however, a firefighter managed to cut the infant free. Lily was passed through a human relay back to shore where she was given treatment. No one can explain what happened, but Lily has since made a full recovery and is living with her family.

Power of Love

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On March 25, 2010, Kate Ogg gave birth to premature twins. The fraternal twins were just 27 weeks old. Emily managed to survive the birth, but her brother Jamie was not breathing. Doctors tried to resuscitate Jamie for 20 minutes but were unsuccessful. Jamie was placed on his mother’s chest so that Kate and her husband David could say goodbye to their son. Five minutes into the agonizing process of biding a final farewell to their child, the parents saw their son start moving. The doctor claimed that such movements were merely reflex actions, not signs of life, but Kate and David asked for a few more minutes with their dying son. A few minutes turned into two hours, and Jamie opened his eyes.

The doctor took some convincing to believe that there was actually a tiny Lazarus in the room and not just a pair of grieving parents desperate to deny the painful reality. When the doctor put a stethoscope on Jamie’s chest, however, he realized that Jamie had somehow fought his way back to life. The boy made a full recovery and has not had a single medical problem since.

Impossible Wind

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Tornadoes are one of the single most destructive weather patterns on the planet. They rip up trees by the roots, tear roofs off houses, chuck cars into buildings and fling shrapnel through the air at more than 100 miles per hour. They can form in minutes and without warning. They have leveled towns, killed thousands and left entire states reeling. Tornadoes can also, however, pluck infants from their cribs and set them down again without causing injury.

The stories of “tornado babies” are almost baffling. The same storm that shreds a house like wet tissue paper will drop an infant in the mud a few feet, yards or miles away with little more than a scratch. One such example occurred in March 2012 in Indiana when a baby girl was found in a cornfield 10 miles from her home. Another miraculous survivor was 11 month old Kyson who was sucked from his crib and deposited 300 feet away. Yet another tornado baby was Aleah Crago who was ripped from her Oklahoma home only to wind up in the mud 100 feet away uninjured.

Miracle on the Hudson

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In 2009, it seemed like New York City was about to be the victim of yet another tragedy involving an aircraft. Instead, the frigid Hudson River was the site of arguably the most incredible feat of flight made by a civilian pilot.

On January 15, 2009, U.S. Airway Flight 1549 lost both its engines to a bird strike. With no way to get to an airport for an emergency landing, pilots Chelsey Sullenberger and Jeffrey Skiles glided the plane safely into the Hudson River despite the minuscule margin for error. As soon as the plane stopped, nearby ferries and boats hurried to the downed aircraft. Thanks to Sullenberger’s excellent flying and the quick action of nearby boats, all 155 people onboard Flight 1549 were rescued successfully. The water landing made national news and was quickly dubbed “the Miracle on the Hudson.”

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Miracles are things that are impossible. Sometimes, they involve human beings making inexplicable decisions. Other times, miracles involve what is more clearly the supernatural at work. Regardless of how the miracle occurred, modern miracles are often overlooked simply because they are not as flashy as what many people expect from miracles. The lack of thunder and lightning, however, does not make modern miracles any less incredible. Sometimes these miracles get the attention they deserve, but all too often they are simply ignored by anyone but those directly involved.

Unfortunate as it is that modern miracles are often relative unknowns, media attention is not the most important part of a miracle. That would be the lives saved through events that are so incredible they have to be miraculous.