Mothers' Miracles: Magical True Stories Of Maternal Love An
About this ebook
The volume chronicles moments where maternal devotion guides children through sudden danger and illness. Contributors recount a South Dakota mother awakened by an urgent premonition while her son lies trapped in an Alaska plane crash.
Moving recollections here capture how maternal prayers reach across miles and hospital rooms. Other selections follow a mother diving into freezing Cape Cod waves for her drowning boy, and an officer guided to a car in a deep canyon.
- Against the Odds: In Sweden, a mother’s plea to a magazine brings hundreds of letters, photos of horses, and western gifts from strangers to her five-year-old son before an optic nerve tumor takes his sight.
- Raw Honesty: A daughter in New York remembers how her mother, silenced by Alzheimer’s disease, found her voice one last hour each week at church to sing every hymn and recite the Lord’s Prayer.
- Motherhood: A Brooklyn mother records cassette tapes of lullabies and folk songs so neonatal nurses can play her voice to soothe her critically ill infant on a respirator.
- Inspirational Stories: Officers in dress whites welcome a terminally ill eleven-year-old boy aboard the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Carl Vinson, honoring the legacy of the naval surgeon grandfather he never met.
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About the author
Jamie Miller created these games for her five children and has also used them successfully in many church and schoolroom settings. As a member of the singing King Family, Jamie was featured on their weekly television show in the 1960s and 70s and toured the United States and Canada performing during those years. A book editor and the coauthor of Christmas Miracles, she has a degree in education and lives in California.
Jennifer Basye Sander is a writer and editor who lives in Granite Bay, California.
