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Praying for miracles in baseball and in health by Eric Nelson for Communities Digital News

July 19, 2016 By Sharon Vincz Andrews Leave a Comment

Screen Shot 2016-07-19 at 10.56.52 AMMost Americans believe that miracles occur–that a higher power sometimes intervenes in a supernatural way and saves the day. How about you? Do you believe that miracles are natural expressions of a higher law? Or an unexplainable though welcome aberration from the norm? My colleague, Eric Nelson, writing for the July 18, 2016 Communities Digital News,  gives readers a clear picture of what happened in one “miraculous” cure. He encourages us to expect “miracles” as everyday expressions of the divine in our lives. Here’s Eric: 

Last week marked the halfway point of the 2016 Major League Baseball season, and, once again, my favorite team has me praying for a miracle. Although I consider myself an optimist, I just can’t see my boys making it anywhere close to the World Series this year. Or next.

I suppose there’s some glimmer of hope to be had from the fact that the last miracle we saw – well, at least according to the 1977 movie “Oh, God!” – was the 1969 Mets, the assumption there being that God is some kind of celestial superhero whose occasional interventions result in some amazing things here on earth.

But what if everything we call a “miracle” isn’t so “miraculous” after all? What if it’s simply a misunderstood phenomenon waiting for an explanation? What if what we now think of as impossible, even supernatural, suddenly became possible and completely natural – for everyone?

I’m not just talking baseball here, but the really big stuff like our health and general well-being.

A few years ago, my wife and I had dinner with a good friend whose life some might describe as miraculous. When she was 18, she suffered from a debilitating disease that attacked nearly every organ of her body. Doctors recommended that she receive hospice care, as they did not expect her to survive. She soon fell into a coma.

After six months, she “miraculously” regained consciousness and decided she wanted to be transferred to a nonmedical care facility. For the next few months, she received basic physical care as well as prayer-based metaphysical treatment from a Christian Science practitioner. No pills. No intravenous tubes. No surgery….

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“Miracles From Heaven” Film: Was it Really a Miracle? by Ingrid Peschke for MetroWest Daily News

April 19, 2016 By Sharon Vincz Andrews Leave a Comment

Cloudy-dramatic-sky-formatMiracles? If you Google “people who have experienced miracles”, you’ll get over 5 million hits.  That means LOTS of people are talking about and experiencing what appears to be some unexplained but positive occurrence that saves, blesses, cures or otherwise convinces people that there is a power operating in their lives for good. How about you? Have you experienced a “miracle?” My colleague, Ingrid Peschke, writing for the April 17, 2016 edition of MetroWest Daily News, provides some insight into miracles and suggests that underlying miracles are natural spiritual laws that we are beginning to understand. Here’s Ingrid:

Are spontaneous cures miraculous?
The recently released movie, “Miracles From Heaven,” starring Jennifer Garner, has opened up this discussion on the big screen. It explores the true story of a girl whose incurable disease suddenly disappears after a nearly fatal accident and a message she receives from God.

Skeptical? You’ll have to see the movie to judge for yourself. I was surprised we didn’t hear a collective “Amen” in the Boston-area theatre showing I attended. The whispers and tears that followed in the audience were enough to indicate people are hungry for examples of hope and healing.

The explanation physicians usually assign to these events is “spontaneous remission,” which means there’s simply no medical explanation for why a disease disappears. Some leave it at that, but others are curious about how these cures come about.

Take, for instance, Harvard Medical School Professor, Dr. Jeffrey Rediger….

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I'm Sharon Andrews. I look forward to conversations with you about the connection between health and consciousness. How does thinking affect the body? What makes us healthy? I am a Christian Science practitioner and the media and legislative liaison for Christian Science in the state of Indiana. I like travel, bicycling, organic gardening, and basketball!

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