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“Is it a miracle?” Dr. Michael Lemole was asked. He smiled and then said, "Miracles happen everyday. In medicine, we like to very much attribute them to either what we do or others do around us. But a lot of medicine is outside of our control and we're wise to acknowledge miracles."
Last Friday Pope Benedict XVI approved a miracle attributed to the now deceased Pope John Paul II. The miracle was the phenomenal healing of a French nun’s Parkinson disease. Pope Benedict set May 1 as the date for Pope John Paul’s beatification, which is a step in the process of becoming a saint in the Roman Catholic Church.
Do miracles still happen or are they just a part of the ancient biblical past? I guess it all depends upon how you define the word “miracle”. To me, it means an event where God intervenes, so I agree with Dr. Lemole that miracles happen everyday. Hopefully, the miracle will happen and Gabrielle Giffords will return to perfect health, at least that’s what I am praying for. But I also pray for world peace, freedom from addiction and even a win for the Razorbacks – all which at times could be considered miracles, too.
Sometimes what we consider coincidences are really God’s little miracles. At least I like to think that there is still a God in the heavens who watches over us and intervenes when we pray, and even at times, when we don’t. If doctors and popes know this; perhaps we can believe it, too.
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