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Miracles Do Happen

            Location: Tama River, near my house, Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa-ken, Japan

Thanks to Fr. Suarez who celebrated a healing mass last night.  I witnessed and experienced some things that I cannot explain but only my faith can comprehend.  I was skeptical as I am not religious nor spiritual but I thought of giving it a shot as this was not all about me that I was there for but for my sister who was just discharged from the ICU after a ischemic (with an "i") stroke which paralyzed half her body and also affected her speech.  When Fr. Suarez touched my forehead, no, not really touched, it was something like his palm was four inches away from it,  I felt a certain force that made me feel disoriented and shook my balance as I tried to stand more firmly. The strange feeling that shrouded my whole faculties was beyond words to describe.  But I know that I felt something, only that my mind was trying to ignore it but my heart says differently.
Anyway, I saw other people "rested in the hands of the Lord" (as Fr. called it) and when they regained consciousness, I asked them how was it and they themselves can't believe how they popped like thin air and felt the same strange feeling which made them fall at their backs in the floor..  I talked to a Japanese lady, she was a Buddhist and was not even a believer of anything beyond science but she claimed that her lingering back pains were gone immediately after the session.  I dunno, I am still confused but it made me think that, miracles no matter how you refuse to recognize them, really happen.

Note:  Sorry, I normally don't write long captions.

Taken in: 日本 (show map)

Taken on: July 9, 2011

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Camera: Nikon D700, f/10.0, 1/640 sec, 35mm, ISO 200 (more info) (hide info)

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