2008 Woodie Awards
God's grace seen in all of life's big and little miracles
Foreign Eyes
Eric Ariel Salas
Issue date: 3/12/08 Section: Opinion & Editorial
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For years, I have taken note on little and rather enormous miracles in my life and in the lives of people I have personally known or stumbled upon day after day. Since I started writing, I have been broadcasting life stories that depict miracles as I recognize them to countless souls through magazines and dailies. The stories were unequivocally spirit-uplifting. They were the sorts that offered a smile to a frowning face or inspiration to the heartbroken. Stories from everyday miracles. Inspirations from everyday stories.
One inspiring story that has etched a mark in me was about the miracles of the "flyday" night. I narrated the moments when most of the members of a Christian organization "fly." No, they did not transform into horrible-winged, sci-fi creatures. Called Flyday night, it is the night when darkness quivered at the slight sight of light, and good triumphed over evil. Flyday night refers to a gathering of students, teachers and communities adoring Christ on a Friday night that knows no mercy for all legions of demons and the like. That particular night I was invited brought so many miracles to so many devotees.
The life of Doods was the first miracle I heard. He was an unwanted child. His mother never planned for his coming and irrefutably attempted to abort him. He grew up without anything to call his own. Love was deprived of him just as happiness was insufficient to make his life as normal as the other kids around him. He could never forget how he silently rebelled for what he had gotten in a life he described as entirely miserable. Pain all to himself, he searched for satisfaction and found it among friends hooked on spending free time in school sniffing "powder." If schooling was the reason he was sent by relatives miles away from home, for him it wasn't so. He thought, with bitterness engulfing him, he was born to have fun with drugs and alcohol, and no one has the power to stop him from having it all. No one was there to tell him he was moving fast towards a sure dead end.
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saturnalicius
Saturnalicius
posted 3/12/08 @ 4:37 PM CST
Goody goody goody - I love MIRACLES!
Rescue teams battled yesterday to answer the desperate screams of mud-caked survivors of a volcano that killed as many as 20,000 people. (Continued…)
askin ozcan
posted 3/13/08 @ 1:41 AM CST
I fully agree with Mr. Eric Ariel Salas.
I would like to introduce my book here, "SMALL MIRACLES" by Askin Ozcan (ISBN 1598001000) Outskirts Press Inc. (Continued…)
Saturnalicius
posted 3/13/08 @ 8:54 AM CST
Dear SoMN,
Thank you for your judgmental and crude response - "douchebag" - how quaint - you must be an evangelical.
Dear Askin Ozcan
How nice - self-promotion - Making money off of peoples fears and hopes - how quaint - you too must be an evangelical. (Continued…)
askin
posted 3/13/08 @ 10:44 AM CST
Answer to Saturnalicus:
Self promotion and making money off people's fears and hopes are in your head- not mine! I detect in your expression a mental disorder. (Continued…)
Venus deliciouso
posted 3/13/08 @ 11:12 AM CST
Here we go again.
Saturnalicius is back. We need more evangelicals! Defend the faith against Saturn.
saturnalicius
Saturnalicius
posted 3/13/08 @ 2:08 PM CST
Salas and others,
I'm not 'back'... I never left... but let me recant and ask for your definition, what is a 'miracle'? What is the sense of referring to miracles big/small. (Continued…)
God is NOT great, its miracles are illusions...
posted 3/13/08 @ 2:38 PM CST
When it comes to miracles, isn't it odd that ancient peoples had a lot of them and today's believers grasp at straws to find the wimpiest examples of alleged miracles. (Continued…)
Saturn is da MAN!
posted 3/14/08 @ 5:32 AM CST
SoMN,
What kind of loving christian are you? Kind of like Torquemada, eh? I don't think SoMn likes to have to think, must be a struggle to have to encounter new ideas, isn't it?
SoMN, the worst form of poverty is not to live in a small house, but in a small mind. (Continued…)
saturnalicius
saturnalicius
posted 3/14/08 @ 7:58 AM CST
Dear SoMN,
Is 'doucebaggedness' a word used outside of the 4th grade?
Sounds rather judgmental SoMN – very Fred-Phelpsian, I'd say.
And you are incorrect. (Continued…)
Haploid Zombie
posted 3/14/08 @ 5:01 PM CST
It would take a MIRACLE for any sane human to believe any of this nonsense regarding this easter myth about a haploid zombie that imposes a ritual act of cannibalism on his band of merry men. (Continued…)
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