February/March 2019

Mysterious Ways

A brand-new magazine filled with true stories of extraordinary moments and everyday miracles that reveal a hidden spiritual force at work in our lives

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Editor’s Note
A few years ago, my sister Kristin and I were on the train, throwing around ideas for a “sisters trip.” We were in desperate need of a vacation, Kristin especially. She was going through a tough breakup. I’d been praying for her a lot. “How about Ire
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Wonderful World
Kerrobert, Saskatchewan, Canada Following their June 2016 wedding, James and Heather Simonson traveled to the Canadian Maritimes. Toward the end of the trip, on Prince Edward Island, the couple stopped to replace their camera’s memory card with a new
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Meet Cute
The 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece. Matt Emmons, an American rifle shooter and Olympic gold medalist, was on his way to winning a gold in the 50-meter three-positions final. Until he blew his shot. Literally. In a comfortable lead, he took a de
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Staircase from Heaven
The phone rang just as I was getting my five-year-old son ready for school. It was Mom. I could tell she’d been crying. “Kathy,” she said. “It’s your dad.” It was the call I’d been expecting. The call I’d been dreading. Dad was homeless. A veteran an
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Dr. John & Rebecca Jackson
Does God really leave clues of his presence on earth? Dr. John Jackson, a physicist and former professor at the U.S. Air Force Academy, and his wife, Rebecca, think so. Founders of the Turin Shroud Center of Colorado, these real-life Indiana Joneses
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Mysterious Moments
It was a beautiful Sunday in Glenrothes, Scotland, where I’d traveled for business. But I was feeling blue. If I were home with my family in Arizona, I would’ve been at church singing hymns. Instead, I was all alone. Desperate for distraction, I got
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The Shared Driveway
The shared driveway. It was the one feature of her house that Hillary Harris wasn’t crazy about. In fact, it nearly stopped Hillary and her husband, Lance, from buying the quaint, two-story home in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, in 2011. “Do we really want t
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The Compassion of Giants
My mom and I stood at the ship’s bow, braced against the chop. It was July, but a cold wind was ripping through Monterey Bay. Perfect weather, our tour guide assured us. My family was on vacation in California, and we were on a mission to see one thi
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A Peek at Eternity
Flowers that stretched as far as the eye could see. Light, ethereal and embracing. Peacefulness unlike anything imaginable. Decades later, the survivors remember every detail. Memories so vivid, their day-to-day lives seem muted. Less real than what
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One Thing I Can’t Explain
Have you ever had an experience you just couldn’t explain? I’m a middle school science teacher. There’s nothing I love more than graphs, proofs and facts. As I tell my students, there’s not much you can’t explain with some good, old-fashioned math an
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The Coat That Changed the World
When you think about the outcome of the Revolutionary War, it doesn’t seem like the newly formed United States should have prevailed. After all, how did a ragtag, ill-equipped group of colonials stand up to the vast might of the British Empire? Great
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Hank
I was making my morning coffee in the kitchen and wondering how I would get through the day, especially with the rain coming down, when Tony’s picture toppled from the mantle in the family room. Again. Ever since my husband died two years earlier, th
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A Tale of Two Tires
When I was young, my father, a traveling insurance salesman, was on the road for weeks at a time. On one of his trips through North Dakota, he found himself alone for hours on a desolate highway that cut through the snowy landscape. The car hummed, p
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“I Speak to Them in Dreams…”
Since the days of Abraham, people have turned to their dreams for guidance—and for good reason. Many theologians believe dreams are one of God’s primary ways of getting our attention. So could God be trying to tell you something while you are sleepin

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