For instance, dragons flew over Bohemia for several days in 1533 and a spring of blood welled up from the ground in 1550 between Halle and Meissen. But I don’t see how one can read some of these accounts and conclude that it is just the natural universe doing random, improbable things. In this Boston Christmas Miracles story, top of paediatric nurse Ailani’s wish-list is a white Christmas, so swapping sunny Hawaii for a stint on a Boston children’s ward is unmissable. But today, many miracles would be so notable that in some situations people wouldn’t be able to get past them.

Written from 1965 to 1972, some distribution occurred via photocopies before a hardcover edition was published in 1976 by the Foundation for Inner Peace.

Miracles with Counselors, David Aldrich Osgood, University of Massachusetts Amherst (1991), Transpersonal Psychology and A Course in Miracles P. The book encourages us to see things differently, with the forgiving vision of an awakening mind: "Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world. Well, one of the striking things in the book is how the healings he described happened immediately after, or during, prayers for that person in Jesus’ name. One later became a member of the Church of Christ which didn’t believe speaking in tongues happened today.

Intellectually, you believe that (at least in general terms) that miracles and healings still happen today. If the second thesis is true then one may be able to argue that Jesus of Nazareth (and others) worked true miracles.In any case, when it gets right down two it, you have sort of a split-personality when it comes to the topic of miracles. The first is that events which contradict the laws of nature (where the term "laws of nature" can be defined in multiple ways) may have supernatural explanations. Keener doesn’t say how many people showed up, but he does report that Karen Schmidgall’s dinner that was enough for only six people ended up being enough for everyone, even with having some food left over. Such investment would not be wasted: Lewis' work will not only help you answer friends' questions, but expand your view of God.

That really shouldn’t be too surprising, given the fact that most of us have grown up in a modern Western society and culture that was birthed out of the Enlightenment. In fact, at one point in the book, I was surprised to find a small account about what happened at Calvary Temple, the Assemblies of God church in Naperville, Illinois that was started by Bob and Karen Schmidgall in 1968.

There were two further differences between them and Hume: (1) They were actual scientists (Hume was a philosopher) and were thus actual experts in the natural sciences (while Hume was not), and (2) They didn’t accept Hume’s faulty definition of miracles being violations of natural law.

It is said to have been given to the author in the form of a silent voice that would speak in her head, and she would then dictate the voice to a partner who would take it down. Or are there many more smaller, “mundane” miracles which we miss because we’ve been conditioned to expect something big? I'm surprised by how many people have become 'hooked' on it; what's going on inside their minds and souls?

This is not a "religious" book, and does not attempt to describe our Creator or the nature of Love, "for that is beyond what can be taught. I would also suggest the excellent books by Gary Renard, which introduce the Course in a very digestible way.