MAKE MIRACLES HAPPEN
How do some people survive disastrous situations? Is there a higher power at play who can pluck us from danger? And, if so, why?
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Jay Sabanal was sound asleep at his Southampton home one night in November 2014, along with his four-year-old daughter, Bella, while his wife Liberty, a nurse, was on a night shift.
At 1.30am, the 36-year-old was woken by his daughter screaming, ‘Help me, Daddy!’
Jay quickly realised he couldn’t move. He was in darkness, covered in debris.
His house had been obliterated in what was later found to be a gas explosion.
‘I tried to get out of the rubble, I was really tucked under. Even my face was covered, it nearly suffocated me,’ he recalled.
‘And then I heard people rushing in, helping us. I just shouted, “Can you get my daughter for me please?”
That’s all I can remember.’
Incredibly, both father and daughter made it out unscathed, partly because Bella had crept into her parents’ bed. The position of the bed in her bedroom would have made it much harder to get to her.
We think of miracles as part of some bygone age, but incredible and inexplicable happenings are still taking place.
The definition of a miracle is, ‘an effect or extraordinary event in the physical world that surpasses all known human or natural powers and is ascribed to a supernatural cause.’
Scientist turned miracle expert Glennyce Eckersley, author of Angels and Miracles (Abe Books, £7.99), says these extraordinary occurrences are present in all major religions and most of the minor ones too. ‘Indigenous peoples and ancient civilisations all have miracles and angels in their culture,’ she notes.
But what causes these miraculous occurrences?
Stuart Wilde, author of Miracles (Hay House, £10.87), says: ‘There lies deep within all humankind an immense power; the power is impartial and unemotional. Call it the Universal Mind, Christ Consciousness, or what you will, but it is this power that allows human beings a recognition of the universal life force that we call God. The life