Looking for New Age Miracles? (try God instead!)
The world is full of people offering to sell you ‘miracles of manifestation’ in order to lead a happy life. But most of these miracles are for things that are not really that important (parking spaces, new cars etc). Who knows why good people suffer and die? But what is known if you read closely, is that most of the people selling you miracles are not happy themselves, and charge a lot!
Far better to get yourself to a good church, and pray a lot! If you take the effort, you’ll find that often there are way more ‘miracles’ happening for those that give up New Age fakery, and go to the real Man!
And at least then ‘if you don’t get what you want’, you at least get some inner peace (real inner peace).
Here are a few quick stories that you may find interesting – and surprising!
Catholic Nuns in a Galway Convent
Sr. Colette is one of the cloistered Catholic nuns living in the Poor Clares order in County Galway, Ireland. A former accountant, she used to party like St Francis of Assisi, until she felt her calling to the faith.
One reason she wanted to be a nun, was after witnessing an old boyfriend who was instantly healed from a damaged back from a car accident, which had required him to take a year off work. She writes that she saw many other miracles in her own family, from daily prayer.
English Catholic Saints (with miracles!)
St Cuthbert (the patron saint of Northumbria) was the first ‘environmentalist saint’, who used to protect eider ducks, and mostly lived on the holy island of Lindisfarne.
He was known to perform many miracles including healing the sick, calming storms by changing the winds, exorcising demons and quenching fires with his tears. He even saw St Aidan’s soul ascend to Heaven.
The loveliest story about this hermit saint, is that otters loved him so much, they would dry his skin with their fur, after he had been for a dip in the icy north-eastern sea!
Hertfordshire’s St Alban was the first Christian saint, killed for his belief. The story is that his execution was delayed, as the fast-flowing river that he could not cross dried up, allowing him to escape. When he was eventually beheaded, his head rolled down a hill and a spring immediately created fresh water.
The executioners were so surprised, they began to revere him as a saint, and the well still stands today at Holywell Hill. Who needs reality TV?
Saint Giles (also known as St Aegidius) adored wild deer. The story is that when a royal hunting party pursued a creature into his hermit cave, he made the deer invisible so the arrow wounded his hand, instead of the deer. Leaving the hunters confused and dumbfounded!
Old Canadian Ladies Help A Man Find God
This is a really nice story, for those who believe that they have to see ‘signs’ that there is another world. David was a successful Broadway star and songwriter, whose career ended when his voice went, sending him on a spiritual discovery.
He attended many retreats and meditated for hours each day, visiting psychic fairs and then studied under his ‘guru’ for several years. Who told him he would be as ‘spiritually advanced’ as Jesus if he followed his instructions (the guru, not Jesus).
One day while back in Ottawa (Canada), he had just left a New Age meeting. His feet accidentally kicked a torn page from a magazine that said contained some Scripture to warn him off, so he decided not to take the course he had signed up for.
Still shrugging off the warnings, he was starting to get ‘slimy feelings’ that he should change his ways. But still he pursued the same route, deciding to mix Jesus into his strange beliefs! He caught a bus to Montreal to begin his training with a Swami. But got lost, and ended up by a big Catholic church. So he decided to go in for a few minutes.
David writes that this was what changed his life. After years of paying others to ‘find peace’, he saw old women whispering prayers with bowed heads, and knew that they had the real peace that had been lost on him for so many years. He prayed to Jesus, gave up the occult, got his voice back, married and had a family, and has run a Christian music ministry ever since.
And here’s the thing: people in the New Age often look for ‘coincidences’ like white feathers and music playing on the radio, thinking this only happens outside traditional churches. But when David recently revisited where he had his conversion – it had the same street name as the one he grew up on as a child. Proving that perhaps this conversion was always going to happen!
A Warning Story for New Age Devotees
Sharon Lee Giganti grew up in California, a beautiful young blonde who became Miss San Diego. This led her to becoming an actress, and she soon fell into the New Age, teaching A Course in Miracles.
This book was ‘channelled’ by a woman who on her deathbed, was in ‘the blackest depression’ her priest friend Father Benedict Groeschel had ever seen (yet the book is taught to help people be happy, even though the creator was not?)
Sharon spent years teaching the book, until one day a woman visited her home to say she was suicidal, and she was concerned what her family would do, if she killed herself.
Sharon told her that they would only be upset if that was their reality. The woman stayed overnight, then went home, drank bleach and died.
Still so caught up in her beliefs, Sharon continued to preach the New Age, even though people were suggested her brother (who had mental health problems) needed medical help. She said positive thinking would heal him. It didn’t, and he killed his young son (her nephew).
Obviously then it all fell apart, and Sharon went running back to her Catholic faith she had been raised in. Today, she warns of the dangers of ‘false prophets’ and counsels those who need help in finding true peace. She never wants anyone to go through what she and her family did.
