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Here I am…..working about 22 hours per day frantically trying to turn around my current situation. Some of the best motivation and therapy has been writing as often as I can in my blog. Yet, just when I thought things were really starting to fall my way, another crisis hits this afternoon. Notice I said “just when I THOUGHT”, had I made up my mind that “I KNEW” things were turning around I don’t believe I would have been facing this crisis today. While I don’t want to share all the details with you at this point, I will say that there would be a lot fewer foreclosures if the banks would actually take the time to hire and train employees to talk to, understand and negotiate with homeowners. Worst of all those employees all need to be on the same page and need to stop outright lying to people who have done what the media has said to do, “talk to your bank”. My crisis revolves around a mortgage company employee giving me a deadline to get documents to him , which I did by beating his deadline by two days. Today, I called the company to make sure they had all the documents, even though, I had requested in my fax cover letter that they contact me immediately if anything was missing. Well, guess what ? today the mortgage company’s representative tells me that I didn’t get the documents in on time, when I told him I got them in two days before I was told they needed to be in, he just said well it wasn’t soon enough and you can’t stop the sheriff’s sale of the property. For the first time in a very long time, I lost my temper and really went after the guy, of course that did absolutely nothing for me.
For about an hour after that call I was in a terrible state and unfortunately my daughter called me at the wrong time and I yelled at her even though she had nothing to do with the situation. After that, I felt absolutely rotten about two things, yelling at the mortgage company and yelling at my daughter, both were wrong. Once I calmed down and had a chance to compose my thoughts, the first thing that came to mind was “I need a Miracle” and I need it quick. Since the mortgage company decided my paperwork was too late, I have just a couple days to come up with a very large amount of money so I can keep the property. I had no intention of sharing this much detail with you in my blog but the more I thought about it, I thought there are thousands of people in this same situation that may benefit from hearing what I have to say.
First of all, nothing is impossible, absolutely nothing. Second, I have been faced with situations even tougher than this and no matter how worked up I got, a solution always seems to appear. So I have to remind myself to stay calm and stay focused on knowing the answers and solutions will appear. I also have to remember Diet Mountain Dew and Pastor Peter Geisendorfer-Lindgren of Lord of Life Lutheran Church in Maple Grove, Minnesota. What does Diet Mt. Dew and Pastor Peter have to do with miracles ? Let me tell you, over the past two years when things were very rough for me, Pastor Peter would invte me to meet him in his office for our drink of choice “Diet Mt. Dew”, we had incredible conversations, I always felt a sense of peace roll through me and most importantly we prayed together. I always left his office “Knowing” everything was going to be alright and it always was.
So let’s get back to the “Miracle” stuff, when I was thinking about writing this entry this afternoon, my plan was to leave out most of the details of my crisis but to talk about expecting a miracle, almost like a little test. I thought, I will give everyone a quick summary of the situation and then I will focus on expecting the miracle with the idea of writing about the miracle actually occurring in a few days, that way I could really inspire people by showing them the miracle first hand. The problem with that scenario is that sometimes miracles don’t show up exactly the way you expect them or when you expect them. I have been blessed with countless miracles in my life, so many that I can’t even keep track. These miracles have been small and large, some expected and some were just plain surprises but all of them were blessings from God.
Let’s make a miracle happen right away. I know it’s possible, as it happened to me and it has happened to many people I know. One miracle in particular is the subject of a screenplay I am working on getting placed so a film can be made. The business associate who brought me the screen play happens to be the subject of the screen play. Her miracle was what I would call an ultimate miracle but it shows the power of faith and knowing you can create miracles. Let’s call the associate KH, and let me just give you a quick summary of her miracle. About 10 years ago, on Christmas Eve, KH had a heart attack even though she was young and healthy, her husband was able to perform CPR as he had just finished a CPR class the week before, the ambulance just happened to be down the street and arrived in less than 2 minutes, KH had died, her heart had stopped and the paramedics had to shock her heart to get it started but without the CPR she wouldn’t have had a chance. Once she arrived at the hospital and the tests came back, he heart was so damaged that the doctors told her they were putting her on an emergency transplant list. Since the next day was Christmas they told her that the soonest they could perform the surgery was the day after Christmas. KH was devastated, she couldn’t talk because of the tubes and breathing apparatus that were inserted in her body. But KH had faith and knew she needed a miracle. Since she couldn’t talk she spent all day, Christmas day, tracing the letters to the word “Miracle” in the palm of her hand, all day long without fail she kept this up. The next day she woke up feeling horrible, the nurses told her she need to go in for tests on her heart to find out how much more damage had occurred. The last thing KH felt like was more tests. After the tests were completed, the doctor stopped by to have a talk with KH. The Doctor didn’t know how to explain it, but the tests done that day, the day after she traced “Miracle” a thousand times in her hand showed that her heart was fine, there was no damage and she didn’t need the transplant. KH told me this story over dinner at a Friday’s restaurant, I was so glad that the lighting was low because I was in tears most of the time she was telling me about her “miracle”. I really don’t believe in coincidences, and I truly believe that God made sure that KH and I would meet to show me that anything is possible and to remind me that Miracles really do happen.
The next 48 hours are all about miracles for me, I will be praying, visualizing, writing in my journal and writing personal scripts to myself but most of all I will be letting go and letting God take over. God has never, ever let me down and I know that this situation won’t be any different. If you really need a miracle the first thing you need to do is “Expect it” and secondly you need to “Know” it’s going to happen. Some people call it faith, I call it knowing and the other thing that helps is being able to spell miracle in the palm of your hand.
I expect to be writing about my miracle in the very near future, I hope that you will check back and share my miracle with me. Regardless of what you are facing, your thoughts must be positive and you must know your situation is only temporary. I have been there and while I have searched for what my purpose in life is, I truly believe that the challenges I have faced were meant to happen so I could share with you how to cope with and conquer any challenge you may face. Anything and Everything is Possible !
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