One of the main premise of my new book, “The 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 forms, from direct divine intervention to great doctoring to advanced technology wrapped in a compilation of coincidences.
Unfortunately, despite praying directly to a personal God, there are countless tragedies where no amount of prayer seems to affect the outcome. As New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan told me, God brings us the miracles He wants us to do, not necessarily the miracles we ask for.
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“I had a problem with my sinuses,” she told me. “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 was praying, a voice came to me and said, ‘Go to Scully. Go to Scully.’ I looked, but there was no one there.”
“Scullie?
“He’s my primary care physician and he works at an urgent care center. I hadn’t gone to him in the first place because I thought problems like this needed a specialist to solve. But when I heard the voice, I knew God was telling me to go to Dr. Scully, so I went to the urgent care center the next day. He talked to me, tapped my sinuses with his fingers — which the sinus specialists hadn’t done — and told me I only needed a Benadryl at night and nothing else. So, I canceled the surgery and have been feeling fine ever since.”
‘Allergic sinusitis. It sounds like you avoided unnecessary surgery. And the voice?’
“An angel of God, of course.”
Split of the book cover of Dr. Marc Siegel and The Miracles Among Us. (FNC)
Not all miracles are strictly medical. Some are based on intuition, on a moment of faith, or on a doctor working with his patient and refusing to give up. Some are the result of direct divine intervention and others are based on a combined mixture of faith and science.
We continue to pray for National Guard Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, who more than three weeks after being shot in the head, is now breathing on his own and can even stand with assistance, according to the Medstar Washington Hospital Center where he is being treated. He faces a long road of rehabilitation, but his progress so far is already a medical miracle.
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This week we also continue to pray for the victims of the shooting at my alma mater, Brown University – a veritable ivory tower where centuries of dedicated peaceful study and discourse were suddenly shattered by a gunman, causing deep fear, anxiety and two tragic student deaths.
According to Dr. Craig Spencer, a renowned emergency physician who worked at Rhode Island Hospital – the Level 1 trauma center where the victims were taken – initial triage and stabilization efforts were successful last Saturday. This means the medical team was able to stop the bleeding and stabilize their vital functions immediately. Successful operations followed.
We hope and pray that God will bring full recovery to these victims and restore peace and tranquility to the university that has been shaken to its core.
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Christina Paxson, president of Brown University, reported to the campus community on Friday that “the condition of the other shooting victims continues to improve. As of late last night, six were in stable condition and three had been released from the hospital.”
Brown desperately needs this miracle of recovery – and soon, as Christmas approaches.
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