My Miracle

Has God ever worked a miracle in your life? I know missionaries who have seen the dead raised after the name of Jesus was called upon, and even though I’ve never witnessed that, I’ve seen miracles just the same. The first miracle that my faith produced was jaw-dropping, and still is.

 
I was in my 20s, and had just arrived home from a singing tour with my sister and brother-in-law. We were all standing in the front yard, greeting family, glad to be home, etc. It was a windy day, and all of a sudden, something blew into one of my eyes. Immediately my contact lens had to come out, and like a nitwit, I popped it out right there in the front yard, only to see it disappear in the wind.

Losing a contact was a big deal. I was blind as a bat without them, and I had no backups and no glasses, so, even though it looked beyond hopeless, I dropped to my knees and began diligently combing through the bajillion blades of Augustine grass.

 
Before long, everyone wished me well and drifted inside, and before too much longer, I reluctantly joined them.

Once inside, however, I couldn’t let it go. I really needed my contact! So, while the others got on with life, I stubbornly went back to the front yard and did my best to determine exactly where I was standing when I popped the contact out.

On hands and knees, I poured over the area, talking aloud to myself, looking here, there, everywhere. At some point, I sighed loudly and said, “Lord, I know you can help me find my contact. You know exactly where it is, and I really need it. And even if it blew into the next town, Lord, you can make me another one just like it. Please, please, help me here.”

Immediately, in my spirit, I heard a voice say, “Look under that blade of grass.”

Now I know that sounds far-fetched, dear friends, because it is, and I chuckle every time I think of me on all fours, on a windy day, looking for a contact lens that weighs nothing, expecting to find it in a yard full of Augustine grass. But that’s exactly what happened. With a calm assurance in my heart, I lifted “that” blade of grass, and there it was—safe and sound, glistening in the sun, just waiting on me. Jaw-dropping, indeed.

I shared that to say this: Childlike faith in God is a powerful thing, and no matter how impossible our circumstances look, if we'll do what we can, he’ll do what we can’t. I am living proof.