For the past few years (I think), your emails and the stories you share have helped me very greatly in my faith.
I wish to share a story with you.
I've always noticed the free posters or offers you have on your website but it's always only been for Americans. I live in Malaysia :)
Well, that's okay. You serve who you can and that is already so good of you. Last year, a friend in Australia urged me to fill in one of the offer forms .. I think it was for a calendar. At first I said no. Then at her urging, I filled it up, not expecting to get anything.
To my surprise, one day I received a Miraculous Medal in the post. I saw the invitation to donate and I wanted to but I never got around to it.
Then this January the construction of my house began. Then my husband asked me for medals to place in the foundation of our home. I went around town and couldn't find a single Miraculous Medal. There WERE medals available but in different shapes and designs.
We wanted the original design. My mum had given me one a long time ago but that was it. THEN I remembered the medal you sent to me. I opened my box of rosaries and medals and there it was. You cannot imagine how I felt.
I wanted that particular medal so badly. One nicked and old medal seemed insufficient.... but now thanks to you, I had another. So now my husband is busy overseeing the construction of the slab on which our house will rest. In the cement will rest two beautiful medals; one from my mum and one from America, so far away :)
I KNOW a medal is not a magic charm but it IS a sacramental and knowing that the foundation of my house had two medals embedded gives me such a feeling of peace.
Thank you for sending the medal, even though it wasn't in your 'job specification'. It means more than you can imagine.
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