Dear God, Miracles in todays time?

Dear God,

 I ask myself, “Do miracles still exist in today’s time”? I know for certain the answer is yes! There are so many little miracles that occur everyday, and some that even tend to go unnoticed. When I was just a child I remember playing with a little girl that lived down the street. She came from a broken family. They were struggling with alcohol and drugs, and divorce. She rarely came around, but sometimes she would ride her bike and ask if I wanted to ride with her. I used to talk with her about You. I really wanted to help her and to try to teach her that You really did care about her and her circumstances. She truly believed that no one cared about her. She would cry herself to sleep at nights sometimes. Once she talked about her washing dishes at home after dinner, and she accidentally dropped and broke a plate. Her mother smacked her and grounded her for a week. She called her clumsy and screamed at her, making her believe that she had done this deliberately. I felt so sorry for her. She was intrigued by someone who would actually love her even though they had not met before. She couldn’t understand how her sins could be forgiven and how You could change her life forever.  I never gave up on telling her how You created everything and everyone and that there was nothing that You couldn’t do.

One afternoon she stopped by and asked if I could ride with her before dinner. Mom allowed me to go and so we took off around the block. She was upset that day because her brother had done things to her. She was asking me how she could get away from all that was hurting her. Her mother showed no love to her because she was a constant reminder of the husband who left with another woman. Because she physically resembled him, her mother took her anger out on her daughter. She told me that she just wanted someone to love her and care for her. I knew that she needed You more than any other time in her short life. I told her that we needed to pray to You and ask for You to come into her heart and save her from sin.

The miracle occurred that very afternoon. While I was telling her this, we had been riding our bikes very slow, side by side. We had rode in the direction of the flow of traffic. While there was very little cars that came that way, we assumed that any vehicle coming would see us and we would hear them and veer off to the side of the road. At the moment that we were asking You for help…… a motorcycle came from out of nowhere. I was still in the middle of the road. Before I had time to react, the motorcycle seemed to actually drive right through me!  I was stunned. But I will never forget what I said to her. She was screaming and crying. She asked me how on earth did you survive that? I told her” See, I told you that God will always protect us!” Even though I was just a child, I knew that You would always keep me in the palm of Your hands. By all rights and reality, I should have been in a terrible accident that day. I probably would not have made it, or would have been severely hurt.

I believe, completely, that You allowed that to happen to show my friend that there is nothing that God can not do! Your power is too great. She believed me and asked You to come into her heart and she was saved that very afternoon. While You don’t have to show others just how awesome Your power is, You knew that she was suffering every single day in her home. She needed something great big to happen to allow her to know that she could live her life now, with Your guidance and help.

I don’t know what ever became of that little girl. We eventually moved and I never saw her again. It is my hope that she kept a relationship with You and that You worked in her life. I also know, that no matter what she became as she grew up, that she will never forget that afternoon, and the miracle that we both experienced.

I prayed to You that night and thanked You for Your protection and mercy to me that day. I also knew that You must have had a specific purpose for my life. I know that writing these letters is a way for me to show honor to You and to remember all that You have done for me and those that I love.

Please be with all the dear children of the world. May there be someone in their lives that will bring the word of hope to them and explain to them about how You died on the cross for EVERYONE! Today’s world seems to be full to the brim with dysfunctional families, abuse, broken by divorce, drugs and depression. I want them to know that there is absolutely nothing that they can experience that Your love can not make better. You can love them and protect them unconditionally.

You bring hope to the hopeless and love to the unloved. You give even a child the ability to understand just how great a God that You are. I am so blessed to have known You my whole life. I am so grateful that even though I have had to experience trials and tragedies, that I have the faith to know that You would not give me more than I could handle.

Thank You for friends and for strangers that I am able to share the gospel with. For I never want to be ashamed to show my love for You. I have to ask myself, “What if I hadn’t shared the gospel with her that day”? Would the afternoon have been spent in the emergency room? Thank God, I will never have to know!

Thanking You for miracles in today’s time!

Gina