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Modern-Day Miracles
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by Tammy Madden
ome people believe that there are no miracles in
of the night as they cry, or drying little tears with your
today’s world. Some say Jesus only performed
kisses. We have some friends that this happened to many
miracles back when He walked the earth. Well, I beg
times over. In 2005, this beautiful couple came together in
to differ. I am 54 years old, and I have seen miracle after
marriage and was blessed with a beautiful baby boy in 2006,
miracle in my lifetime. I have watched as life’s flight left
Sam. Sam was the light of their lives, but he was born with
the ground with my precious baby girl at 11 months old,
a heart defect. After many surgeries, Sam became too ill to
knowing she was fighting for every breath. They had given
survive without a heart transplant. The heart never came,
her two hours to live: BUT GOD! He stepped in and gave
and God called him home. Before God called him home, He
her a new heart. Before she got that heart, she sustained a
had blessed John and Tanja with another baby: a beautiful little girl, Emma Grace. Tanja asked God to please not let her home be quiet. She wanted to hear the laughter of children again in her home. This is where our God brought the miracle in!! This beautiful family decided to become foster parents. They became a miracle to more children than I can count: children that needed hugs and kisses and love in the middle of the night, children that otherwise would not have had anyone to hold them when they cried. They soon found out that the miracle God had for them was out of all of these babies, four of them found their forever home with this beautiful family. I can only imagine the smiles that Sam has in Heaven looking down on all his
severe brain injury and was supposed to be a vegetable for
brothers and sisters that he will one day run to in Heaven.
the rest of her life. That “vegetable” is now a senior in high
Miracles are all around us. They come in the form of
school. But let’s talk about just one miracle that happened to
just looking at the stars on a beautiful summer night. They
her during that six months in the hospital.
come in watching a newborn baby enter the world. They
The day my daughter got her heart, they had to do a
come in the form of a child’s little arms around your neck.
procedure on her old heart, not knowing yet that a heart
They come in the form of a child’s laughter as they stand in
would become available that very night. She began to bleed
the snow, catching snowflakes on their tongue. But they also
out. As fast as they were pumping blood in, it was coming
come in the form of watching a person with stage 4 cancer
right back out of the chest tubes. I remembered a verse in
suddenly be healed or a heart defect suddenly be gone. God
the Bible that my father had told me about growing up. That
is still on the throne. His miracles are still many and mighty.
verse is Ezekiel 16:6. We all began to read that verse and pray
So look around you today as you walk around town or as
for God to stop the blood. Within minutes, the doctor came
you are driving through the city. I promise you will see a
out to tell us that the blood had stopped instantly and they
miracle every day.
Sometimes God performs miracles that come in the form of the pitter-patter of little feet, holding a baby in the middle
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About The Author
could not understand how. Oh, we knew exactly how: GOD!
My name is Tammy Madden. I live in the beautiful foothills of North Georgia in Chatsworth. I am married for 35 wonderful years to my amazing husband, Gene and we have a beautiful teenage daughter named Megan.
