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Last week, you voted on the best Mysterious Ways story to appear in Guideposts this year. With 25% of the vote, Sheri Bull’s story, “Miracle at the Front Door,” was the clear favorite. Maybe it was such a clear favorite because Sheri’s story showed that even the most vulnerable among us—a mother home alone with her children in the dead of winter—are being cared for, whether we're aware of it or not.
Throughout 2011 on the Mysterious Ways blog, we’ve shared even more incredible stories from the news and from our Guideposts family. Now it’s time to decide which story touched you the most. We’ve chosen 10 stories we believe reveal that something more than luck or coincidence is at work in our lives. Was there a story you thought was so incredible you just had to share it with friends? Click the links below to read the stories, then come back and vote for the most spine-tingling, most wonder-filled story from around the world this year.
We’ll report the winner next Thursday! In the meantime, keep sending your Mysterious Ways stories. Maybe your true story will be voted the best next year!
[Update] And the results are in:
According to Guideposts readers, the most compelling Mysterious Ways story from the headlines this year was the story of James Pribram and Maira Khan in Laguna Beach, California. It's a perfect example of the right person being delivered to the right place at just the right time. Check it out if you haven't already.
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Adam Hunter is a senior editor for Guideposts magazine. He’s edited the Mysterious Ways section since October 2006, and is continually amazed by the astounding stories shared by readers. Follow him on Twitter: @MMysteriousWays
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I can hardly believe that all these stories are real, there really are no "miracles", not in this day and age.
To me, these stories all seem as "real as Santa Claus".
For years I have always been drawn to an eastern city in WI.
Why Waukesha, WI? .Why am I drawn to that town?
Why doesn't anyone care..even my late husband kept another women's bed warm, and seldom returned to ours......why did he not care, why have I never felt loved by anyone person,?
When I was growing up, the ones that I lived with, moved every 6 months to a year, and always, always by the dark of night.
Why was I never allowed to be around THEIR relatives?
Why was their son more important than I?
What did "If you had your own mother, you would be a better person" mean?
What did "You won't cry for the mother you had, but for the mother that you never had" mean?
Prayers don't help, if they did, after 60 some years later, someone would have cared, somewhere in this vast US.
Who was "my own mother"?
Who am I? Was I adopted? Stolen?, Am I a "cold case somewhere in the Waukesha police station?
Who was I before I became who I was not?
"Miracles" are for nice stories to read, they just don't happened to normal people.
Hurt and heartaches happen to real people.
You sound as if you've had a very hard life. My heart goes out to you. Somehow, you've survived it all, and that's a miracle in its own right.
People can sometimes do horrible things to other people. God gave us free will, the ability to perform our own actions, and while most people use that ability for good, some people use them for selfish and destructive reasons.
Mysterious Ways don't always save someone's life, they don't always make things better. But they do provide hope, and hope is often the difference between surviving difficult circumstances or succumbing to them.
I do hope that you get the blessings you deserve, and that you find your own moment, your own experience that helps you look at life with a brighter perspective. Take care.
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