Do You Believe In Miracles?

What if miracles aren’t rare… just overlooked?

In this powerful episode of The Blinded Truth Podcast, we dive deep into the real meaning of miracles — not the flashy, once-in-a-lifetime moments, but the everyday survival, growth, and breakthroughs that often go unnoticed.

From overcoming addiction and mental health battles to simply making it through seasons that should have broken you… this conversation will challenge how you define a miracle.

Because sometimes the miracle isn’t what happened…
it’s the fact that you’re still here.

If you’ve ever questioned your journey, your purpose, or whether things can truly get better — this episode is for you.

✨ Tap in, reflect, and ask yourself… Do you believe in miracles?

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Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:01

Welcome to the Blinded Truth Two Shot Podcast where real stories meet real healing. We are your host, Destiny Vans, and co-host Eric Foster.

SPEAKER_00 0:12

Eric Foster.

SPEAKER_01 0:14

Today's episode is titled Do You Believe in Miracles? When people hear the word miracle, they often think about something big, dramatic, or impossible. Something that happens once in a lifetime. But what if miracles are happening around us more than we realize? Sometimes the miracle is the fact that you made it through something that should have broken you a long time ago. Sometimes the miracle is surviving a season you never thought you'd get through. Sometimes the miracle is still being here when life could have easily gone another way. Many of us are walking miracles and don't even recognize it because we're so focused on the struggle we went through to get here. Today we are talking about the miracles we overlook, the moments that saved us, and the truth that sometimes the miracle isn't the moment itself. It's the fact that you're still standing after it. This episode is powered by Destiny is by Choice Support Services because your journey, your voice, and your truth matter. So again, this is another episode that you titled I guess you got some things you want to talk about.

SPEAKER_00 1:27

Um we'll see, I guess, how how it goes. But before we get started, how you been?

SPEAKER_01 1:34

I've been okay. You know what I got going on. I got school, life, kids, job.

SPEAKER_00 1:44

But guess what though?

SPEAKER_01 1:45

What?

SPEAKER_00 1:46

You're a miracle.

SPEAKER_01 1:47

I know.

SPEAKER_00 1:48

Hey, see how I tied that in there?

SPEAKER_01 1:51

So anyway.

SPEAKER_00 1:53

What are you talking about?

SPEAKER_01 1:56

So you were saying that sometimes life um we are all miracles and we don't realize it, right? And then life we all experience miracles. So what was your miracle or miracles that brought this conversation up?

SPEAKER_00 2:11

I don't believe that I mean it could have been, but it wasn't a miracle that brought that. It was a um when the light bulb goes off moment. Um and you know, I was asked to to come up with a topic, and and as soon as I was asked, I had to go downstairs to get something, and it hit me. So I I let it inform you what it was about, and then you come up with this uh elaborate um intro that I don't never know what it is, so it kind of catches me off guard every time. So when they're listening for the first time, I'm listening for the first time. So I'm over here like, mm. But it it is is very much so uh true that we we can't recognize the miracles that be in front of us. You know, um, and you know, just me and you sitting here being able to do this is a miracle in itself. Um because again, three years ago I was in a trap house in her. So um that ain't a miracle. I don't know what is.

SPEAKER_01 3:16

Yeah. Yeah, there's been I could say there's been a lot of things that um definitely could have took me out, you know. Like, I don't think a lot of people know that I suffer from an illness, um, a chronic illness. And so every day is a fight for my life. But I could remember going through uh my kids were young, um, they were three and four at the time, but like going through chemotherapy and wanting to take my life several different times, you know. There was times that I was like in the moment of taking a bunch of pills, and my oldest will walk in the room and want to snack. And I know for some people, they probably like, oh that's funny. Yeah, because at the end of the day, it would like totally distract, it would kind of like snap me out of it, like you said, like snap you out of it, or that light bulb, like, and like this is not this is this is not what it is. This is what not what it should have been. Or like I can remember doing prison time as a six-year-old being charged as an adult because So you was getting juvenile life that's five years. I was being charged, I was being tried as an adult.

SPEAKER_00 4:34

Oh, you agree to go to the big house.

SPEAKER_01 4:36

Yeah. And it was for something I didn't even do.

SPEAKER_00 4:39

That's what they all say.

SPEAKER_01 4:40

I'm dead serious. You know what? It was for something I didn't even do.

SPEAKER_00 4:48

But guess what though?

SPEAKER_01 4:49

It is it snapped me back into reality other life.

SPEAKER_00 4:53

I got locked up because something I didn't do. No, my mama.

SPEAKER_01 5:00

She she has some of the evidence. The lawyer has set me down and I was like, look, first of all, I was being tried for two things. Hold on, I was being tried for two things because the first couple charges, they couldn't try, I was supposed to bend and went to court on, but at the time, me and my mom and us, we were homeless. So they could we didn't have an address. So when I got in trouble for this, they just lumped it all together. And so when I went to go see my lawyer, she was looking at like everything I had gone through. And she was like, So tell me what happened. And I was like, I don't know what happened. I was so I was like, on this charge, I know what happened. I did push the teacher. I ain't gonna lie about that. I did, I did assault the teacher, but on this charge, I didn't do that, and I was sitting there scared because I was like, I know for a fact I didn't do this.

SPEAKER_00 5:55

Okay, so what is the miracle inside of there?

SPEAKER_01 5:57

The miracle was so let me tell you a little bit what happened.

SPEAKER_00 6:01

Oh, here we go.

SPEAKER_01 6:03

The I was working at FYE and it was in the mall, whatever. Anyway, they were trying to say that I was stealing uh track phone cards, but the way I was trained was how everybody that ended up going to court was trained how to do it. And our store manager ended up leaving. I think she was getting high, but she ended up leaving. We got a new store manager. So all of a sudden I'm working and I get this phone call from AP, from the AP person, asset protection, and they bring me to the back and they're like asking me all these questions, like, how do I process? And I'm like, this is how I process it. Well, he begins to say, like, I know you were stealing them. I said, How am I stealing track phone cards when this is the way I didn't even have a track phone, I had Intelos. So why was I stealing track phone cards? It didn't make sense. So come to find out when I went to my lawyer's office, she was like, Tell me exactly how you were trained. It was exactly how I told her exactly how I was trained. And she was like, you know, well, the Commonwealth attorney wants to try you as an adult. And I was like, I didn't even know that. And so come to find out, she had got her like investigated to kind of like investigate. They had no cameras, but the same way I was I was being trained, it was me and a couple other people saying, like, this is how we were trained. So she sent somebody in. I don't even know if I'm supposed to be doing it. She sent somebody in to order to get one. And that person, before they got them, before they had made them start going to court or whatever, they did the exact same thing. And so she was kind of like, Y'all have no cameras, you got several people that's being tried at for the same charges of theft, and they was trained the exact same way. The person that trained them is nowhere to be found. Are you kidding me right now? And so literally, they was painting this picture of this is why she needs to be locked up. And I was just sitting there like, so this is what it comes to. I had just got out of alternative school, I had just started back going to regular school. I had, you know, all my tests, my drug tests was coming back, you know, negative. I was doing great. I was on the road of redemption. And this pops up. And all of a sudden, the judge says, I'm dismissing these charges. He was like, But what I am gonna make you do is apologize to the teacher. So I had to write a letter saying I apologize. She wanted to sue us and all this stuff because she said she hurt her her knee, but she shouldn't have stepped in front. That's a whole different story. But the miracle was everything got dismissed. Because they was painting a pretty picture of this is why she should be locked up right now.

SPEAKER_00 8:43

You know, this this probably should be a short for you right now. It probably should. Yeah, because you killed 10 minutes. Oh, whatever. I mean, what can we say in five? I'm just keep I'm keeping it real, but keep it real. You killed. You killed.

SPEAKER_01 8:56

You asked me what my miracle was. That was my miracle. Yeah, my miracle was it really that honed it in for me that I ain't had time to play.

SPEAKER_00 9:06

I'm glad that you didn't go to the beginning. You wouldn't have survived.

SPEAKER_01 9:09

I would have survived.

SPEAKER_00 9:10

You think you would've? My daddy raced mostly. Wow. So you judge by what you think. I'm just saying, you know, everybody can't survive. There's a miracle of surviving prison. You know that? So what's your miracle?

SPEAKER_02 9:24

Hmm.

SPEAKER_00 9:25

Did I move to Rona? That is the most biggest miracle of all. Because Richmond didn't claim my life. I'm telling you, man. Life is um go ahead.

SPEAKER_01 9:38

No, because you know, you say you you moved to, you know, Ronald, and that's that was your miracle, but I heard, you know, we we had an NA meeting with our adolescents, and they brought them in. And one thing one of the girls said was she moved here, you know, from New York, and she said that so many people moved to different places to get away from the drugs. But they're like, you can get drugs anywhere.

SPEAKER_00 10:02

Man, I I'm I hate that I hate when I hear that because of course you can if you go looking for one.

SPEAKER_01 10:10

Right.

SPEAKER_00 10:10

But when you live in a city where you know everybody, southeast, northwest, that you can get it anywhere. And every time you see somebody, they're asking you questions about it or giving you some to sell or whatever, it's hard to get clean. It's and get live the right life. So when I moved here, I can leave the house and go to Walmart and not run into anybody that's from my past about the drug thing. You know, because if I'm clean, they want me to sell, and if I'm using, they want to sell it to me. I don't want to worry about that no more. I do I go anywhere I want to freely and not worry about like running into people I know. And you know, normally people uh move because they have to, you know, they get chased a read out of their city.

SPEAKER_01 11:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 11:01

I came, I I didn't come to Ronaldo Williny because I thought I was going to Ronald Rapids, Virginia, but ended up here.

SPEAKER_02 11:07

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00 11:08

Because when I got in the in the in the car and I said, you know, they're taking me to treatment. I thought it was in Roanoke, but it was here, so I got a treatment stage, so that's another miracle.

SPEAKER_01 11:18

So do you think sometimes people take miracles for granted?

SPEAKER_00 11:21

All the time. I I I think we play with miracles. And we don't believe in the miracles when we see them. Because you can say you believe in a miracle, but you don't believe in the persons and massages.

SPEAKER_01 11:33

But you think they believe in they believe in coincidence, not miracles. Or do you think they're the same?

SPEAKER_00 11:40

No, I don't think a coincidence is a miracle. I think um a coincidence is just what it is, a coincidence. But a miracle is like when you hear a bullet go past your head and it don't hit you.

SPEAKER_02 11:53

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00 11:54

And it goes between you and your your best friend, in between you. And they're shooting at another one of your friends. So the bullet was meant for another one of our friends. He was running from a dude, he was shooting at him, and the bullets came between me and my other friends. He was running towards us, and none of us got hit. That's a miracle.

SPEAKER_01 12:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 12:15

You know? And I went with like 16 when it happened. So suppose it would have hit me, I wouldn't be sitting here.

SPEAKER_01 12:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 12:21

That's just one of the things that's happened in my life.

SPEAKER_01 12:24

So how do you process when miracles happen to you? Because sometimes, like, I see people that get they have miracles and happen to them and they go on Facebook and boast about it. And some stuff, like at that moment, I think you feel it, I feel like you have to process and and allow yourself to really understand what happens, or they go into XYZ instead of like being present in it, you know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_00 12:55

I mean, if if I know it's a miracle in the works of happening or happen, I just process it and I I think my high power, you know, um, for whatever. And I try not to take it for granted, you know. I I I I try to accept it for what it is. A lot of times in the past, I would take credit for the miracle that happened. And it wasn't me at all. Story. I'm in Whippin' Court. I'm walking down the sidewalk between two apartments. I hear these gunshots. I mean lots of them. And all of a sudden I see like five little youngins running towards me. They look at me, they say, Oh, don't go that way. And they just keep going. I've seen all their faces. They could have killed me. But that was a miracle.

SPEAKER_01 13:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 13:44

I try not to question them, but some days it's like, what do you want me to do? Because obviously you kept me here for 50 years to do something.

SPEAKER_01 13:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 13:55

And sometimes it just it it just makes you just want to cry because I don't want to disappoint him anymore.

SPEAKER_02 14:03

Yeah.

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You know.

SPEAKER_00 14:04

And I know I'm a miracle. You know? Um, I'm just glad to be here, man. I don't mean to call you man, you know, that's how I talk, you know. Cause you know, I'm a good old country boy, you feel me? It's how we talk in the country.

SPEAKER_01 14:17

So that is not uh how you talk.

SPEAKER_00 14:21

It it is. But back to your question, when I accept it, I accept it. I don't try to figure it out.

SPEAKER_01 14:28

But do you accept it and try your hand again?

SPEAKER_00 14:32

Or like of like, is it gonna is I'm gonna be saved this time or the old me three years ago did, yeah, because I did a lot of things over and over again that could have ended in a bad result, but it never happened, thank God, you know. Um but me now and the way I live now, I can see the miracle.

SPEAKER_02 14:55

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00 14:56

I can actually see when a miracle happens because I live such an ordinary life now that a miracle stands out. Like something good like boom is amplified, you know, like just being becoming a peer was a miracle. Uh finishing three treatments was a miracle. Um Man, the list goes on, you know. Me gaining a relationship with my my family again, that was a miracle all in itself.

SPEAKER_01 15:27

Yeah. You know, because I know for I mean, I know for a lot of people that are in recovery, that's the hardest part of I have a member who said that they um got to meet you know, make link up with their family, and I was like, I was shocked because I hadn't heard them talk about family, and I usually that's the question I asked. I'm going back through my notes and I was like, I asked you about family, and and they said they didn't mention it because their family didn't talk to them.

SPEAKER_00 16:01

Yeah, but see, my thing was it wasn't my family, it was me. You know, I pushed them away so they wouldn't be caught up in my drama, you know. But for some reason, they always like a week or so go by and they'll come find me, you know, and just to make sure I'm alright, because I turn the phone off, throw that out the window, I'm off all to the races, you know. Um but the miracle is like I can call my sister, my mom, my nephews, nieces, or whatever, and they can pick up, you know. And it is not like picking up out of being afraid, they're picking up out of just I guess wanting to hear my voice.

SPEAKER_01 16:41

Yeah. That's a miracle. And you're far away too from them, so yeah.

SPEAKER_00 16:46

But they tell me every time I even think, you know, like not think about but speak about, you know, later on moving closer. It was like, no, you're good where you at.

SPEAKER_02 16:56

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00 16:56

And that's that's that's good to know because I know I'm in the right place that telling me I am. Because normally they want me close.

SPEAKER_02 17:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 17:05

But now since they see me thriving and and living a uh a a better life, they don't want anything to come in between me and my goals. So, you know, if anybody knows me, knows, like I always got to some money, regardless of how I got to it, right? But it was always consequences, it was always uh a chance that I would either get killed or go to prison. And today it's not about getting to the money, it's about getting to the peace. The peace of mind. Like, that's the miracle. I have a peace of mind today. I can wake up refresh. This work don't kill me the night before. I normally wake up groggy or in a bad mood, not because of what's going on here because that's what it is. But the miracle is I can wake up and I don't gotta go outside and get some heroin to make me feel better. I don't gotta take a shot of heroin to eat breakfast or do chores or whatever. I don't gotta do anything to maintain, you know. Um the miracle is going to the doctor getting a physical.

SPEAKER_01 18:10

Yeah. People the things people don't people take for granted is like being alive, being able to breathe. I I remember having COVID and um being in the hospital and and I know everybody says I had COVID. But when you had COVID the way I had COVID, and they was asking me, there's a chance you might code. Who do we call? Who do you call? I was like, Jesus. I said my mom, I said, no, don't call her. I said, because she's gonna freak out. I said, call my aunt, she's a nurse. But like I didn't understand how much breathing can take a toll on your body. Like just sitting up in a chair breathing, or making sure I could breathe, and then like hearing those alarms go off because I was sitting up too long and all my oxygen and dropping. It was like, what in the world?

SPEAKER_00 19:07

You know, without the oxygen, you're gonna.

SPEAKER_01 19:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 19:11

Because when you breathe in air, you're actually breathing in conscious. Because if you stop breathing, the first thing you lose is conscious.

SPEAKER_01 19:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 19:21

So without the air and the oxygen to your brain, it's a wrap. I'm glad you made it. You know, but you know, see how they drop the jewel on you just that quick. Oh, wow. I just get paid for dropping these junks.

SPEAKER_01 19:32

Talk about getting paid for him dropping these junks, you know. Maybe you should start doing motivational speaking to get paid for it.

SPEAKER_00 19:43

Yeah, I mean, I want to. I I I will. You know, if it lines up with what I got going on. I really ain't got a whole, whole, whole lot going on. I got enough to keep you busy. But hey, it's gonna be springtime. I ain't gonna be in nobody's house or building nowhere during the daytime. I'm gonna be out making content, taking pictures, eating ice cream. Eating, I gotta go on a diet, eating ice cream. It's gonna be, it's gonna be uh lit, as the young people say. It's gonna be lit.

SPEAKER_01 20:17

Two hours and listening. He ain't gonna be outside. He's scared of no seams. He ain't gonna be outside, y'all.

SPEAKER_00 20:25

And look, if you ever haven't got bit by no sim, it's a real thing. It's a bit of a mosquito. Look it up. It's called no sim. It's like an outside. I told her about it about two years ago. And when she got bit by, she called me up like, Eric, you're right. I got bit by the way.

SPEAKER_01 20:45

And and I promise you, if you do see my side, he in a full sweatsuit, he ain't getting high, y'all. He just scared of them no suit.

SPEAKER_00 20:52

Oh that's crazy work right now.

SPEAKER_01 20:57

I'm just telling y'all, I promise you, he good. You can put stuff, he ain't gonna go, he ain't gonna come hot.

SPEAKER_00 21:04

Just look crazy.

SPEAKER_01 21:05

You just gonna look crazy. Yeah. And that's okay.

SPEAKER_00 21:08

Hey, that's a miracle.

SPEAKER_01 21:09

That's a miracle.

SPEAKER_00 21:10

Yeah. Looking crazy and being crazy, two different things.

SPEAKER_01 21:14

You just listened to our truth shop podcast. Do you believe in miracles? Powered by Destiny is by choice support services. Today's conversation reminds you of anything, let it be this. Miracles don't always show up with flashing lights and big announcements. Sometimes miracles look like survival, sometimes they look like growth. Sometimes they look like waking up one more day with another chance to do life differently. You may not have realized it at the time, but many of the moments that shaped you were miracles in disguise. And if you're still here, still pushing forward, still trying to become better than who you were yesterday, that itself is a miracle. And remember, your destiny is by choice, not by chance. And please, until next time, keep walking in your truth.

unknown 22:07

Bye.