DR MARC SIEGEL: Share your miracles, and I’ll share what I still pray for

One of the main premises of my new book, “Miracles Among Us,” is that we all experience miracles – we just have to look hard enough to find them, and that they come to us in many different ways, from direct divine intervention to great medicine to advanced technology combined with a combination of coincidences.

Sadly, despite praying directly to the human God, there are many tragedies where the amount of prayer does not seem to affect the outcome. As New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan told me, God brings us the miracles He wants us to have, not the ones we ask for.

My book has contacted people who have experienced a miracle and want to talk about it. This past week I was standing outside Fox News headquarters in the freezing cold with a sign that said, “Bring your miracle.” Many people stopped to share their stories, including Kathleen, an elderly woman from Long Island.

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“I had a problem with sins,” he said. “I saw two top sinus specialists, both of whom looked at my CT scans and said I needed surgery. The night before the procedure, I went to the healing center I go to and prayed with my priest for a successful healthy outcome. But as I prayed, a voice came to me and said, ‘Go see Scully. Go see Scully.’ I looked, but there was no one there.”

“Scully?

“He’s my regular doctor and he works in an urgent care center. I never went to him in the first place because I thought this kind of problem needed a specialist to solve. But when I heard the voice, I knew God was telling me to see Dr. Scully, so I went to the urgent care center the next day. He talked to me, touched my sinuses with his fingers — which a sinus specialist needed – and Bentry told me that I just had a sinus operation. At night and nothing else. So, I canceled the surgery, and since then I have been feeling much better.”

“Allergic sinusitis. Sounds like you avoided unnecessary surgery. Word?”

“An angel from God, of course.”

Indeed, not all miracles are medical. Others are based on intuition, a moment of faith, or a doctor who works with his patient and refuses to give up. Some are due to direct divine intervention and others are based on a combination of superstition and science.

We continue to pray for National Guard Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, who was shot in the head three weeks ago, is breathing on his own and can stand with help, according to Medstar Washington Hospital Center where he was treated. He faces a long road to recovery, but his progress so far has been a medical miracle.

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This week we continue to pray for the victims of the shooting at my higher education institution, Brown University – a real ivory tower where centuries of peaceful studies and lectures were suddenly ended by a gunman, leaving great fear, anxiety and the tragic death of two students.

According to Dr. Craig Spencer, a famous emergency room doctor who worked at Rhode Island Hospital – a Level 1 trauma center where the victims were taken – the first efforts to check and stabilize last Saturday were successful. This means the medical team was able to stop the bleeding and stabilize their vital signs immediately. A successful operation followed.

We hope and pray that God will bring full recovery to these victims and restore peace and tranquility to the university which has been shaken to its core.

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Brown University President Christina Paxson told the campus community Friday that “the condition of the other shooting victims continues to improve. As of last night, six were in stable condition, and three have been released from the hospital.”

Brown desperately needs this miracle recovery – and soon, as Christmas approaches.

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