Mothers' Miracles

The authors of Christmas Miracles deliver true stories that show just how enduring a mother's remarkable love can be.

The volume chronicles moments where maternal devotion guides children through sudden danger and illness. Contributors recount a South Dakota mother awakened by an urgent premonition while her son lies trapped in an Alaska plane crash.

Moving recollections here capture how maternal prayers reach across miles and hospital rooms. Other selections follow a mother diving into freezing Cape Cod waves for her drowning boy, and an officer guided to a car in a deep canyon.
Against the Odds: In Sweden, a mother’s plea to a magazine brings hundreds of letters, photos of horses, and western gifts from strangers to her five-year-old son before an optic nerve tumor takes his sight.Raw Honesty: A daughter in New York remembers how her mother, silenced by Alzheimer’s disease, found her voice one last hour each week at church to sing every hymn and recite the Lord’s Prayer.Motherhood: A Brooklyn mother records cassette tapes of lullabies and folk songs so neonatal nurses can play her voice to soothe her critically ill infant on a respirator.Inspirational Stories: Officers in dress whites welcome a terminally ill eleven-year-old boy aboard the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Carl Vinson, honoring the legacy of the naval surgeon grandfather he never met.