Joan Luise Hill - The Miracle Collectors: Uncovering Stories of Wonder, Joy, and Mystery

Miracles happen. But why, where, how, and to whom? Thats a bit more mysterious. This lively, charming, and inviting new book clears up some of those mysteries by exploring the fascinating stories of miracles that happen in real life. Open this book and have your faith strengthened, challenged, and, most of all, deepened in the God who makes all things possible.

James Martin, SJ, author of Learning to Pray and The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything

The word miracle might bring to mind an image of someone walking on water or jumping out of a wheelchair, but sometimes a miracle occurs when the phone rings at just the right time, or a certain car drives by just when your life depends on it. In my own life, Ive come to define a miracle as a moment when God reveals his presence to me. It turns out Im not alone. Joan Luise Hill and Katie Mahonbeneficiaries of miracles in their own liveshave done a fantastic job of compiling and sharing these beautiful testimonies that remind us not only how Gods got our back, but he created us to have each others backs.

Today, when the world is reeling from the destructive forces of the global pandemic and unjust racial, social, and economic inequality, THE MIRACLE COLLECTORS could not have come at a better time. The recognition of miracles in our lives is a necessary remedy for the human family to begin rebuilding a culture that has sadly descended into us and them tribalism and has closed ourselves off to the beauty of fraternal love. The hundreds of deeply personal testimonies of courage, faith, forgiveness, and hope in this book will help open your eyes to unlikely angels and miraculous eventsones that cant simply be chalked up to coincidence or luck. THE MIRACLE COLLECTORS will remind you how God is revealing himself all over the place through the gift of other people.

By sharing the witness of others and waking us up to the beauty, love, andyessupernatural power of the God who unifies us all, this book challenges us to collect miracles in our own lives. THE MIRACLE COLLECTORS reminds us that we can be better than we are, and more connected with each other as brothers and sisters. Thank you, Joan and Katie, for this wonderful book that very well may be the miracle someone has been looking for.

Jeannie Gaffigan, producer, writer, philanthropist, mother of five, and author of the New York Times bestseller When Life Gives You Pears

There were so many stories and pages that reminded me of something about my life. I believe in miracles, but its always wonderful to be reminded that we must keep our eyes and minds open to these beautiful blessings that are presented to us.

Laura Schroff, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller An Invisible Thread

The heartfelt stories in THE MIRACLE COLLECTORS take readers on a journey of the soul. Remarkable stories of coincidence, love, rescue, forgiveness, and peace reveal the wisdom and grace that are accessible to all and allow access to deeper connections with one another. THE MIRACLE COLLECTORS offers a refreshing and uplifting opportunity to rediscover your own dreams, change your aperture on the world, and possibly find the miracles in your life.

Lee Woodruff, #1 New York Times bestselling author of In an Instant: A Familys Journey of Love and Healing

The miracle chasers have paused in their quest to share some of the amazing treasure they have collected, and there are dazzling gems here! Tales of inexplicable healing; random acts of kindness; timely interventions by strangers who appear without summons and disappear, often without thanks, as if they were earthly angels; luminous moments of gratitude and forgiveness that transform lives; and acts of inspiring courage that will leave you agape with wonder and touched by joy. The authors tell these stories with respect, aware that they are gifts entrusted to their care, and set them within their own wise reflections on their meaning. Throughout, they challenge us to become a miracle for someone else, to practice a generosity of spirit that makes anything, perhaps it is everything, possible. Perfect reading in a time of anxiety and isolation, when we need the bracing reminder that miracles abound when hope overcomes fear and love holds us together in an embrace neither disease nor death can pry loose.