Posted on 09/21/2006 6:46:45 AM PDT by DaveLoneRanger
LAFAYETTE, La. -- Two little girls, who apparently couldn't sleep, got out of the bed they shared less than a half-hour before a tractor-trailer plowed through their bedroom.
Cori Morgan, 7, and her sister, Shadia, 3, had left their bedroom for the living room just before the 4:30 a.m. crash, said Cerrisa Moore, whose mother owns the house.
The girls' parents, Cody Batiste and Sally Morgan, both are deaf.
"When it happened, I just thought it was the rain," Batiste said through sign language interpreter Phyllis St. Cyr.
"There was a big noise, and I was puzzled," Batiste said. "Cori looked around and said the bedroom was all messed up."
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Those guardian angels were on the job.
Amen!
Huh? Talk into my good ear...
Amen to that
Well, at least they didn't have the Capitol One Guardian Angel...........
"George Bailey, I'll love ya til I die."
Thank God they aren't Union.
*snicker*
Very cool!
I wonder if the writer has a 4th grade diploma, geven this pseudosentence: "The girls' parents, Cody Batiste and Sally Morgan, both are deaf. "
Very cool!
I wonder if the writer has a 4th grade diploma, given this pseudosentence: "The girls' parents, Cody Batiste and Sally Morgan, both are deaf. "
That story was on the local news here. It gave me chills! Certainly it was the good work of guardian angels and God! Miracles do happen.
Did you ever see the promo for Steve Irwin, where his guardian angel keeps trying to take a break, and then an alarm goes off and he keeps having to fly down and save Steve? :-(
No, but it must have been prophetic, like his FedEx commercial..........
Oooh, I like that one. I always pictured St. Michael looking like that. =)
Is that a Ron DiCiani artwork?
A guardian angel saved my life about 30 years ago.
I named my eldest son after him and my youngest after Joshua, a great Bibical warrior.
Cool, an angel saved my life just about 32 years ago. I am still crazy about her.
I had a real angel experience....I was pronounced dead at the scene of an accident, when a stranger stopped, ran to me, gave me mouth to mouth, and started me breathing. He went back to his car and drove away.
Let me say this first: I firmly believe in miracles. I've experienced three myself.
This was not a miracle as one would describe miracles - it did not defy physical laws. It may have been the Lords work though. It could also be just a coincidence.
I remember in church one time that a guy said a bullet missed him by just a couple of inches and it was a "miracle". I thought to myself, "WOW, it missed me by 23 miles, that must have been a SUPER miracle".
Although this could be explained as a coincidence, and it IS possible that the girls just needed to get up at the right time - after all, whoever wins the lottery just "happens" to pick the right number, but I don't consider it a miracle - but I do believe the Lord has his hand in such things.
If I were the dad, I would thank God for sparing my girls.
I will add this as well: When I became a Christian, I stopped believing in coincidence. Events forced my hand.
I will add this as well: When I became a Christian, I stopped believing in coincidence. Events forced my hand.
I don't believe in coincidences. I don't comment too much about that, but like you, once I accept Christ into my life, life was no longer filled with random occurences that happily at times saved lives.
Respectfully,I am confused by the dissonance in your above statements.
The seeming contradiction was not lost on me as I typed it.
What I really was trying to say is that non-Christians will see this as those nutty Christians believing that it is a miracle, since the laws of physics were not violated.
To an agnostic, it is a coincidence. If the girls are in the habit of leaving their beds at about that time on many nights, then it really is, maybe not a coincidence, but just normal. After all, you wouldn't call it a miracle if an airplane fell on your house while you were at work.
Do tell us!
Guardian Angel ping.
Well, the kids' were, but where was the truck driver's? On coffee break?
If you were at work only because a man came and said there was trouble at the mill, and that he wasn't expecting the Spanish Inquisition...
I don't either.
>>If you were at work only because a man came and said there was trouble at the mill, and that he wasn't expecting the Spanish Inquisition...<<
Yer right. But no non-Christian would. And if you brought it up there is a VERY good chance they would skip the soft cushions and go straight for the comfy chair!
A skeptic who requires a violation of the laws of physics as proof of a miracle is, from the outset, viewing events through a distorted lens that implies he/she knows and fully comprehends all the laws of nature. In times past, solar eclipses were viewed as mysterious and supernatural events, yet today we understand the simple concepts behind them...
...a skeptic/agnostic/atheist who insists upon a 'miracle' as proof, may just as soon be waiting for, and even accept, an event that centuries from now, is fully explicable and accepted as natural.
Assuming that we fully understand the miracle that is nature and all of its physical laws is the ultimate self-delusion of our age and the greatest indicator of our self-victimizing vanity.
Perhaps the driver's guardian angel allowed this to happen in order to get the man's attention.
Wow. Don't tell ME the Lord doesn't work in mysterious ways.
Immediately thought the same thing.
My fourth baby (born 10 months after 9/11) is named Joshua. He's the most aggressive of my children. He likes to hear the song about Joshua a lot. No matter how often he is told it's about another Joshua he keeps saying it's about him.
My brother-in-law thinks that there are no such things as miracles. Just happy coincidences. *sigh*
Mine were miracles. They defied the laws of physics. That said, they are for me and those involved. You cannot convince others. I am very familiar with the story of Lazaras and the rich man.
My Joshua is aggressive too. Must be something in the name itself. :-)
He's proud that I chose such a great Bibical character.
"Even now in Heaven there are Angels carrying savage weapons."
Interesting picture. I figured from the title there must be depictions of angels somewhere, but it took me some time to find them.
It could also be just a coincidence
Most kids 7 & 3 years of age are sleeping very soundly at 4:30am. It definitely took an angel to wake them both up, and give them a reason not to be able to get back to sleep.
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I was involved in a freak automobile accident. I had a sports car with a removable roof panel and a roll bar above the seats. Along my route, there was a restaurant that I had seen many times, and I finally decided to try it out. Ever since I started driving, and ever since this accident, I have always used a seatbelt. When I got back in my car, for some reason, I didn't buckle my belt. As I was driving, I remember thinking that I really should buckle up, but the belt was a tricky one that required both hands. So, I figured I would just wait until the next time I had to stop.
As was normal for me at the time, I was going too fast, and there was a nasty blind curve, with the road banked the wrong way, and the nose of the car went into the guard rail. It was the old style with wood posts and a steel rope that tied them together. Near as I could tell, the car went under the steel rope and one of the posts came up over the hood. It punched through the roof, put a nice dent in the roll bar right above the driver's seat, and put a brown scuff on the headrest.
While all this was going on, I was bouncing around in the car. Now, if I had my belt on, that post would have hit me square in the face. I would have been killed instantly. Instead, I walked away with a few bruises.
Who or what made me stop at that restaurant and kept me from buckling my belt? Coincidence? Dumb luck? I don't think so. A guardian angel? I haven't found any better explanation!
Close shave.
Yep.
>>It definitely took an angel to wake them both up, and give them a reason not to be able to get back to sleep.<<
It could have been bagged spinach from dinner. :)
As I said, I have had three "violates the natural law" miracles in my life. There are miracles and then there are "miracles". The C. S. Lewis book "Miracles" covers this whole thing extremely well.
Jules: This was Divine Intervention! You know what "divine intervention" is?
Vincent: Yeah, I think so. That means God came down from Heaven and stopped the bullets.
Jules: Yeah, man, that's what is means. That's exactly what it means! God came down from Heaven and stopped the bullets.
Vincent: I think we should be going now.
Jules: Don't do that! Don't you f'ing do that! Don't blow this s- off! What just happened was a f'ing miracle!
Vincent: Chill the f- out, Jules, this s- happens.
Jules: Wrong! Wrong, this s- doesn't just happen.
Vincent: Do you wanna continue this theological discussion in the car, or at the jailhouse with the cops?
Jules: We should be f'ing dead now, my friend! We just witnessed a miracle, and I want you to f'ing acknowledge it!
Vincent: Okay man, it was a miracle, can we leave now?
And my favorite:
Jules: Whether or not what we experienced was an According to Hoyle miracle is insignificant. What is significant is that I felt the touch of God. God got involved.
The C. S. Lewis book "Miracles" covers this whole thing extremely well.
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