The Impersonal Life

by Joseph Sieber Benner

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The Inner Life

THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | DECEMBER 1933

MODERN MIRACLES

BELOW we give a few instances of apparent “miracles”; at least they seemed as such to the ones who experienced them, bringing with them needed lessons and proofs to them of God’s ever presence and loving care. The reader can draw his own conclusions from these apparently simple incidents.—THE EDITOR.

I HAD two funny little experiences: My kitchen window was stuck for months; in fact it never opened from the top all last Winter and Spring. The other day I tried for hours to open it. Then I remembered, “Be Still and Know.”

I stood back and waited until I was quiet; then I talked to my window and I loved it, and then I walked away and forgot it entirely until next morning. When I suddenly remembered, I walked up to it, and at the first touch of my hand it glided down as easily as if it had never been stuck, and it has never stuck since.

I had knocked down my little German clock in the kitchen and it would not go any more, no matter how I tried to make it go. I had no money to send it away and have it repaired, and so I tried the same thing on the clock. I talked to it and gave it all my love and blessing.

For two weeks I left it alone, but every time I missed the ticking I gave it a blessing. Then one day I touched it with my finger, telling it to get to work, and keep going. And—it did, and has never stopped since.

One morning it was necessary that I do my washing, but after putting my boiler on the fire, I discovered that I had no soap, and as I had only twenty-five cents which I must save for carfare, I could not buy any. Knowing that the Father takes care of all our needs, if we have


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