For those who believe in miracles, they don’t come much bigger than the story of John Smith, the Missouri teen who fell through an icy lake, could not be resuscitated and lay lifeless for more than an hour … until his mother entered his hospital room and cried out to God to save him.
The account of Smith’s full, improbable recovery made international headlines in January 2015 and resulted in a 2017 book, “The Impossible: The Miraculous Story of a Mother’s Faith and Her Child’s Resurrection.” Now, a movie, “Breakthrough,” opening Easter weekend, will tell the family’s story.
God Things
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While the details of Smith’s rescue are truly the kind that grab Hollywood’s attention, believers will tell you that miraculous works are not always so dramatic, but feel no less divine.
For people of faith, there are countless everyday miracles: the still small voice that guides a decision; the helper who appears out of nowhere to offer aid; a solution suddenly made clear.
A nonbeliever might say it’s coincidence. A believer knows it’s providence.
“God Things,” some people call them, the everyday miracles we can’t explain. Sometimes, they are known only to the person who experiences one. Sometimes their effects spread far and wide.
Whether we fully understand them or not, God Things serve as reminders that even when the haphazard events of our everyday lives consume our thoughts, God is still at work behind the scenes.
Have you experienced a God Thing? Please send your stories of guardian angels, divine intervention and other everyday miracles via email to Life@timesfreepress.com. Or mail to Life, Chattanooga Times Free Press, 400 E. 11th St., Chattanooga, TN 37403. Please include your name (full or first name/last initial) and where you live.
We’ll share your stories with other readers on Easter Sunday.