9/21/2020
Irina Krikheli
When I came home, I was horrified to learn that my nephew—for whom I had been very worried at that time and for whom I had been praying hard to all the saints, including my beloved Elder Gabriel—had been in terrible accident. I instantly remembered the car crash on the site where I had met the elder, and I went all cold.
How sometimes bizarre and strange are the intricacies of destiny that guide you through seemingly unbearable trials!
I usually don’t remember dreams, but this one, with the saint’s features, the feeling of happiness and peace, I remember it to this day.
The boy’s father wrote to social services, describing the mother as insane, and who in his opinion, went to unknown locations, taking their son. As a result, the social services took the boy away from his mother.
A few days later when I came to see my friend, a real miracle awaited me. The door was opened by… Lilia Leonidovna herself!
It’s so simple and so difficult to understand what can be given to you according to your faith! St. Luke hears us and helps us.
My friend consoled her as much as she could and decided to ask her again: “Mother, do you agree to embrace the Orthodox faith?”
When I became an adult, I had many moments in my life when I was within a hair’s breadth of death, but my guardian angel rescued me—because I serve in the police, which presupposes different situations.
My husband loved me so much, we were so happy, but we could not have children—that was the only thing that darkened our life. Finally, we resolved to adopt a child.
My husband found a large bill on a busy street. No one was searching for money. My doctor visit cost exactly what my husband had found.
Lying in bed, he worked and prayed all day long, asking God to give him more time to finish the work of his whole life.
I would like to share some stories of miraculous help that happened in my life through prayers of Blessed Matrona of Moscow.
He began to pray fervently, and through his prayers the sick woman came back to life, opened her eyes, took Communion, and after that departed to the Lord.
The family kept the secret carefully, and the descendants never learned the whole truth about their ancestors.
Having wrapped the child in a headscarf (he was very tiny), I ‘stole’ him from the hospital and carried him to church.
The Lord never leaves a person, if only he doesn’t agree to sin.
Seeing what had happened, Anastasia sat on a low bench in the middle of the yard and almost never rose to her feet again. In any weather, she sat in the open, praying that the Lord would forgive her beloved one his grave sin and have mercy on him.
There are people who challenge the generally accepted stereotypes and prove by their entire lives that nothing is impossible for human beings.
