Results: Even seeing is not believing

In recovery, specifically 12 step groups, it is sometimes customary for the meeting speaker (10-60min) to share in this format: what it was like, what happened, and what it's like now. I am almost 34 years sober and I have stories that fit that criteria so does my daughter, almost 2 years sober. Big deal/no big deal. However, I know someone who was, for years even as a minor, a huge drug dealer, just huge. His family constantly moving, always getting arrested, always high. At one point my son saw him do a dope deal, and he at one time sold to my daughter, yep. He eventually went to prison, one of my neighbors and I always praying for him. Last year I saw him, and he is completely clean, graduated with all A's, on his way to a 4 year university for his business degree, walks different, looks different, and talks different. I have never, ever seen anything like this in my life. It is still almost unbelievable to me. I call it my real first miracle, I do. Do you have anything that you have experienced, that has left you in awe; and the only way to explain it is by calling it a miracle?

There are other things in life that are miraculous, like when a child is born with 10 fingers and 10 toes. I am not speaking of the obvious things. Having said that, the only other event that has left me with my mouth wide open, calling it a miracle, is when Captain Sully landed his plane on the Hudson, and everyone lived. I can watch it over and over and I almost just cannot believe it. Are there events that have left you feeling the same way? (news events, things of this nature)

If you believe in miracles, do you look for them or expect them?

I have also experienced being flat broke, and someone will give me money, or I will get a refund check in the mail for a utility deposit that I forgot. It amazes me when this happens, because it's right when I need it. Have you experienced the same or similar?

In closing, if you use the term, Miracle, does it have to be on the grand scale of landing a plane on the Hudson, or do you use the term for smaller things that happen in life? (My apologies for trying to assign a quantitative value to miracles).