a whole weekend and a monday has passed. i reserved today for work and revision, more like for sleeping and eating and watching tv. but hey, some good came out of it...watching tv, that is.

some of you might not know this but...i watch alot of oprah on starworld, every weekday at 1pm. during the hols or on self-declared hols at least. hey, it's not as bad as those freaks(pardon me) who are hooked onto days of our lives! ANYWAY, today's show was on miraculous coincidences, or rather, DIVINE INTERVENTION. spectacular! there were so many stories. maybe i'll just share a few.

there was this pregnant lady who woke up one day with great pains in her womb. she immediately felt as though something was terribly wrong and her mom rushed her down to the hospital. there, her baby was delivered, dead. no breathing, no pulse, just dead dead. frantic, the doctors tried resuscitating the baby girl but to no avail. for half an hour at least. with all hope lost, they let the mother carry the baby girl in her arms to bid her last goodbyes. the mother then asked for the baby to be baptised and was holding her in her arms, saying her goodbyes when suddenly, the baby just gasped for air!! 65 min after dying, the baby literally returned to life! but that wasn't the end of the story. the baby was found to be severely brain-damaged. no sense of touch, nothing. and so they decided to take her off life support. she wasn't responding to the sense of touch and whatnot. then, she suddenly grabbed hold of someone's finger and she was able to suck from her milk bottle. she was coming back as a perfectly normal child! from being dead to being pronounced severely brain-damaged to growing up as a perfectly healthy child. she's 3 years old now. she's a miracle from above.

another story. this guy had been looking for his birth parents for 20 years. he was given up for adoption. when his adopted parents died, he started really looking for the birth parents for 7 years but to no avail, after which he stopped. he decided to move on. even got himself a new job. at his new job, he went to a nearby food outlet at a nearby walmart 3 times a week at least cos he was really fond of the food there. there was always a lady at the counter who was always very friendly and loving to him.

so anyway, one day, he decided to just key in the name of his mother again and search for her on the internet. and lo and behold, he actually got a match. so he sent an online msg to her but it was his sister to had received the message, a sister who never knew he existed. so, she called him up and they started talking. and guess what she told him!

his birth mom had been working in that walmart he went to for lunch for a couple of years now and she worked at the counter of the food outlet there! the same woman who had been serving his lunch 3 times a week for 2 years was actually his very own mom! wonderful how God works isn't it? he decided to stop searching and move on with his life. but God didn't give up. he was led directly to his mom instead. and he just never knew.

there were so many other stories. everyday examples of miracles. we pray for things for so long and sometimes wonder why they never turn out the way we want to or why they never happen at all but hey. God works in his own time, mate. and if we let him do his thang, we can see that the outcomes are beyond what we've ever imagined, better than what we even dreamed off. sometimes, all we really need is just need is a little bit of faith. that's all.

i've said it before and i'll say it again. there really is some good in tv.