I wasn't questioning my abilities or my commitment to
this miraculous gift of life and love.
Not exact matches
The building
of the local hospital, the ambulance that got me there before I died from blood loss, the image
of God in the paramedics that made them give their
lives to rescuing people they've never met, the wisdom
of the surgeon, the intelligence and skill
of the thousands
of individuals whose discoveries have made operating theatres and anaesthesia possible — all
of these are gracious
gifts of a loving God, whose mercy enables healings to take place across the world that would, in any other generation, be considered quite
miraculous.
Spiritual ecstasies and
miraculous gifts are not in themselves alien to Catholic spirituality, being well attested in the
lives of the saints.
We do wait for the adoption — that will come at the fulfillment
of all things, which, however imminent, is still future; but even now we possess the Spirit
of adoption, that is, God's
miraculous gift of forgiveness and grace, an advance installment, a token payment, a foretaste, a «first - fruits,»
of a
life which in its full, true character belongs only to the world to come.
Johnny and Sarah have soon cleaned up the apartment, but the cracks in their
life prove more difficult to mend, until Mateo (Djimon Hounsou), a troubled African artist
living downstairs, offers them a
miraculous gift with which to exorcise the ghost
of their past and start afresh.