Do you believe in miracles?

[Wildcard Ky]

Kentucky is one of many states that have been hit by sever storms and tornadoes recently.

Here's something that I consider to be a minor miracle from these storms:

During an F-3 tornado in Lexington last week, a 1 year old Baby girl was literally sucked from her crib in her room on the second floor of her home. Her father was running upstairs to get her as the storm was bearing down late at night. As he opened her bedroom door, the roof of her room was torn away. He literally watched her get lifted from her crib, get sucked up into the tornado and disappear.

It was late at night and pitch black, but the father and mother ran outside hoping to find their baby. After 10 minutes of searching in the darkness, a bolt of lightining lit the sky. In that brief instant of light they saw their baby next to a neighbors house. They ran over to her. The baby was sitting up and having fun splashing her hands in the water on the ground. The only injuries to the baby were a few scratches.


Here is a newspaper article that mentions the story. I heard the more detailed version that I posted on here on the radio.
Miracle

Miracles really do happen.

 

[KarenAM]

Wow. What a wonderful story. Thanks for sharing it, Wildcard.

 

[Belegon]

Awesome story. I believe in miracles much more now than I did a month ago.

Tornadoes are so freaky and unpredictable. No thanks, I'll deal with the earthquakes instead.

 

[English Lady]

I certainly do believe in miracles and that is a beautiful one

 

[shereads]

Kentucky is one of many states that have been hit by sever storms and tornadoes recently.

Here's something that I consider to be a minor miracle from these storms:

During an F-3 tornado in Lexington last week, a 1 year old Baby girl was literally sucked from her crib in her room on the second floor of her home. Her father was running upstairs to get her as the storm was bearing down late at night. As he opened her bedroom door, the roof of her room was torn away. He literally watched her get lifted from her crib, get sucked up into the tornado and disappear.

It was late at night and pitch black, but the father and mother ran outside hoping to find their baby. After 10 minutes of searching in the darkness, a bolt of lightining lit the sky. In that brief instant of light they saw their baby next to a neighbors house. They ran over to her. The baby was sitting up and having fun splashing her hands in the water on the ground. The only injuries to the baby were a few scratches.


Here is a newspaper article that mentions the story. I heard the more detailed version that I posted on here on the radio.
Miracle

Miracles really do happen.

If by "miracle" you mean, "wow, that was unlikely but it happened anyway," then sure. But if you mean that some divine intervention saved this child's life, then you must assume that other children are allowed to die when there was a power who could have saved them. I don't believe that God has power over the physical world. If I did believe that, then every time someone thanked God for saving a child I'd be angry that God didn't save other, equally deserving children.

 

[Guest]

No, I don't believe in miracles, not the supernatural kind usually put forth. The story is fascinating but a fluke of circumstances to me. I can't really think of anything I'd call a miracle, except perhaps inexplicably pure joy.

Perdita

 

[NoJo]

Great post, WK.

You're a natural storyteller, though, I think. From the dry newspaper article you've added the bolt of lightning, (which I guess was also on the radio version). Next time the story's told, we might get a deep, resonant sonorous voice saying "look to the tree", or maybe a shimmering white figure hovering over the house... that's how I think miracles happen.

 

[SummerMorning]

No, I don't believe in miracles, not the supernatural kind usually put forth. The story is fascinating but a fluke of circumstances to me. I can't really think of anything I'd call a miracle, except perhaps inexplicably pure joy.

Perdita

What she said.

 

[CharleyH]

I will let you know when they draw my numbers tonight.

Otherwise, What P said, and SummerM agreed with.

 

[Sabledrake]

Tornadoes are so freaky and unpredictable. No thanks, I'll deal with the earthquakes instead.

You-n-me both, Bel ... tornadoes freak me the hell out. I've lived all my life in earthquake country. At least with a quake, it doesn't happen every damn year!

Sabledrake

 

[Lauren Hynde]

It must have felt like a miracle to the baby girl's parents, but really, I don't think it's anymore than a statistic anomaly, or a fluke of circumstances, as Perdita said.

The first thing that occurred to me, actually, is how idiot someone needs to be to leave a 1-year-old alone upstairs during a tornado. Probably the same idiot that has a two-storey house so well built that it gets its roof torn off by an F-3.

 

[Pure]

I don't think it was a miracle, in that the storm probably killed some others, including children/babies. Hypothetically, in a certain tornado**: Baby X lives, Baby Y dies. Where exactly is the miracle?

I think there are occasionaly "miraculous" (=mysterious, unlikely unexplained) recoveries from illnesses.

**The one discussed in the first posting, in Kentucky, took no lives.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Why not believe in miracles? When no suitably ratinal explanation exits, why not chalk one up to the greater power for good that most of us would like to believe exists in some form or another?

I'm a skeptic. I try to be objective & rational with most things. But when objectivity, reason and logic fail to explain something so wonderful as a child surviving that, why not break down & believe in miracles for a moment?

For me, it's nice to occasionally think there is a loving, caring benevolent higher power and that she sometimes intervenes in the lives of people for the good. It sure beats chalking it up to coincidence every time I can't explain something good happening out of something bad.

-Coly

 

[Lauren Hynde]

I do believe in miracles.

 

[Pure]

If you've got great powers,

Isn't *simetimes intervening... for good* [based on Colly's words]

sorta like _sometime being honest_?

 

[cloudy]

Hi Lauren.





(Abs has asked me very specifically to sub for her, and has threatened me with pictures of fat, old naked men if I don't )

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Hi Lauren.





(Abs has asked me very specifically to sub for her, and has threatened me with naked pictures of fat, old naked men if I don't )

Hi, Cloudy.

(I know. )

 

[cloudy]

Hi, Cloudy.

(I know. )

whew!

 

[Colleen Thomas]

If you've got great powers,

Isn't *simetimes intervening... for good* [based on Colly's words]

sorta like _sometime being honest_?

I dunno, the nice thing about miracles is you can't explain them.

-Colly

 

[Liar]

Ok, I'm a convinced agnostic. But what I do not believe in is divine intervention. I'd rather deal with a god that chooses not to, or can't intefer, than one that decides life and death by such seeming whim.

Still, it was a good story, it is great to be reminded of that things doesn't always take the worst possible turn, and that good things do happen.

Thanks.

#L

 

[Wildcard Ky]

I think it's a miracle. IMO miracles don't have to come from "God" or some other higher force. Can't a miracle simply be defined as something that defies all odds and logic?

A baby getting sucked up into a tornado and only having a few scratches qualifies as a miracle to me.

Sub Joe:

Thanks for the compliment on my telling of the story, but I didn't embellish any of it. The bolt of lightning was from the original accounting that I heard on the radio.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Can't a miracle simply be defined as something that defies all odds and logic?

A baby getting sucked up into a tornado and only having a few scratches qualifies as a miracle to me.

If the odds of the baby being sucked up into a tornado in the first place were amp'd by her parents being future Darwin Awards' candidates, doesn't that taint the miracle-ness of it?

By your definition, millions of miracles happen every day around the world. Every time the lottery numbers are out.

 

[Wildcard Ky]

If the odds of the baby being sucked up into a tornado in the first place were amp'd by her parents being future Darwin Awards' candidates, doesn't that taint the miracle-ness of it?

By your definition, millions of miracles happen every day around the world. Every time the lottery numbers are out.

True, but how many lottery winners do you know? I'd be willing to bet that there's a whole lot more people that have won the lottery than have been sucked inside a tornado and lived to tell about it. Even fewer that came through with only a few scratches.

Geez, some of you make it hard to get all mushy over a story with an against all odds happy ending.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

I'm willing to bet the the odds of someone who was caught by a tornado being put back down without any major injury are a hell of a lot better than winning the lottery.

And hey, I did start by saying it must have felt like a miracle to the girl's parents. The dumb idiots.

 

[Wildcard Ky]

I know Lauren, I'm just having a little fun.