Comments on: Oscars and Art, Miracles and Myth http://rationalphilosophy.net/index.php/main/oscars-and-art-miracles-and-myth.html Using philosophy, reason and logic in life, to find meaning, purpose and peace. Sat, 19 May 2012 08:41:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Bob Feigel http://rationalphilosophy.net/index.php/main/oscars-and-art-miracles-and-myth.html#comment-160 Bob Feigel Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:56:48 +0000 http://rationalphilosophy.net/main/oscars-and-art-miracles-and-myth/#comment-160 I discovered your site while trying to remember the name of a little church in New Mexico we visited fifteen years ago. My wife and I spent a week in Taos just before Christmas and visited several churches as well as Georgia O'Keeffe's home in Abiquiu. We were visiting the church to look at the architecture and religious art, not a miracle cure. In fact, we didn't know about that aspect of the church at Chimayo when we arrived. I'd suffered several major back injuries when I was younger and, while shifting suitcases, had re-injured a troublesome vertebrae that had once been fractured. As a result, I was in a great deal of pain, finding it difficult to get in and out of bed - let alone a car - and walking with a cane. We went into the church, looked around and went into the small room cum shrine at the back. Then we returned to the main sanctuary and sat in one of the pews. When I got up to leave, the back pain was gone and complete mobility had returned. I haven't used the cane since. Irrational? Don't ask me. All I know is that, after 36 years of on and off back pain, periods of immobility and the threat of corrective surgery, I haven't experienced any further back problems since that day at Chimayo. And if that's a miracle, then I'm all for them whether they're irrational or not. I discovered your site while trying to remember the name of a little church in New Mexico we visited fifteen years ago. My wife and I spent a week in Taos just before Christmas and visited several churches as well as Georgia O’Keeffe’s home in Abiquiu. We were visiting the church to look at the architecture and religious art, not a miracle cure. In fact, we didn’t know about that aspect of the church at Chimayo when we arrived.

I’d suffered several major back injuries when I was younger and, while shifting suitcases, had re-injured a troublesome vertebrae that had once been fractured. As a result, I was in a great deal of pain, finding it difficult to get in and out of bed - let alone a car - and walking with a cane.

We went into the church, looked around and went into the small room cum shrine at the back. Then we returned to the main sanctuary and sat in one of the pews.

When I got up to leave, the back pain was gone and complete mobility had returned. I haven’t used the cane since.

Irrational? Don’t ask me. All I know is that, after 36 years of on and off back pain, periods of immobility and the threat of corrective surgery, I haven’t experienced any further back problems since that day at Chimayo. And if that’s a miracle, then I’m all for them whether they’re irrational or not.

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