{"id":2649,"date":"2017-04-28T07:40:24","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T12:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/mysticpost\/?p=2649"},"modified":"2017-05-10T10:37:52","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T15:37:52","slug":"2649","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/mysticpost\/2017\/04\/28\/2649\/","title":{"rendered":"Rolling Stone Writer Converted at Medjugorje after witnessing Miracle on Cross Mountain."},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ministryvalues\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Follow Mystic Post on Facebook<br>\n<\/a><\/span><\/h2>\n<hr>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>By Stephen Ryan<\/strong> author of Vatican thriller and Amazon best seller <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Madonna-Files-Stephen-Ryan-ebook\/dp\/B01E9D8ZB4\/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=#nav-subnav\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Madonna Files<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Randall Sullivan is a former agnostic, raised by atheists, an Ivy Leaguer,\u00a0and was a \u00a0contributing editor to Rolling Stone for over twenty years. He is also the author of The Price of Experience, Labyrinth, and the g<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Miracle-Detective-Investigative-Reporter-Investigates-ebook\/dp\/B008RZKOFQ\/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">reat book about Medjugorje <em>The Miracle Detective<\/em><\/a>, the book that inspired a television show which he hosted on the Oprah Winfrey Netwo<span class=\"_dgc\">rk.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Do miracles really exist? Or is there a logical explanation to the seemingly inexplicable?<\/p>\n<p>Randall Sullivan is an author and journalist who, while travelling as a war correspondent in Bosnia, saw an inexplicable vision on Cross Mountain in Medjugorje during a violent thunder and lightning storm.\u00a0 It changed his life, and he is convinced it was a miracle.\u00a0 Mr. Sullivan took a moment out of his busy schedule to talk with Mystic Post about that \u201cInexplicable vision that changed his life\u201d<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong><br>\nRandall<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1695\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mysticpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/0517ce3558814bb18e82d1fe6667d117-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"0517ce3558814bb18e82d1fe6667d117\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\"> Sullivan: \u201c<\/strong>The \u201cvision\u201d referred to is the experience I described taking place during my first climb up Cross Mountain after interviewing Medjugorje Visionary Mirjana. The interview ended in a bit of a \u201cspat\u201d. She basically threw me out of her house.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Finding myself with time on my hands, I headed to Cross Mountain. It was a blistering hot day. \u00a0It was so hot nobody was crazy enough to climb the mountain that afternoon, so I found myself alone. Making my way up the mountain I was quickly engulfed and terrified by the strangest and most focused thunderstorm I\u2019ve ever seen or heard about. \u00a0Lighting was so intense and close I could feel the heat. I thought \u201cwell if there is a God, I guess this is my time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Strangely, as the storm raged, \u00a0I then heard a sound of French voices singing. \u00a0I continued up the mountain on very shaky legs, led by the beautiful song. I then came upon a group of nuns kneeling in the mud at a station of the cross. \u00a0As they knelt the thunder and lightning continued to cascade around us. <strong>Then suddenly I felt \u00a0compelled to go down on my knees to pray myself for the first time in my life. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">After<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>a few moments of prayer I\u00a0continued \u00a0up the mountain with the nuns, stopping with them to\u00a0pray at each station of the cross. And then on the mountaintop of Cross Mountain I was \u00a0comforted by a young woman. \u00a0I was not sure it was one of the nuns. The young woman then laid a cloth over my shoulders and put a hat on my head. <em><strong>\u00a0The young woman had a special grace when I suddenly I felt this immense sense of peace.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">I found myself laughing in some kind of glorious relief, The \u00a0whole episode, the storm, th<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-865\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mysticpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/0427_littlesisters-300x230.jpg\" alt=\"0427_littlesisters\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\">e singing nuns, my first prayers, was overwhelming. I then \u00a0closed my eyes to pray for a moment and after opening my eyes again I discovered that the sun was out, the skys had cleared, and the nuns and the young woman were nowhere to be seen.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">I could not believe they were gone. I ran back down the mountain and then up again and then down again looking for the nuns, not being able to find them. I went into town asked everybody that I could or anyone at the cafes at the bottom of the mountain who had seen any group of nuns on the mountain that day. Nobody had seen the nuns.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">I was then confronted by the thought that I might have hallucinated but I quickly came to a decision that I\u00a0 HAD seen what I had seen and that it would be like slapping away God\u2019s hand to deny it.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 align=\"left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ministryvalues\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Follow Mystic Post on Facebook!<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hear Interview with Oprah about Randall\u2019s Miracle on Oprah<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kSY1CBX_XqA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p align=\"left\">Randall Sullivan on Medjugorje<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">\u201cThere is no single word I discovered that so instantly could produce a rapturous smile a derisive snort or an uncomfortable silence in the Vatican as \u201cMedjugorje.\u201d What fascinated me\u00a0 was that those that extolled Medjugorje as a place of sacred virtue of unparalleled power all had made pilgrimages to experience the village first hand while those who scoffed knew only what they had read or heard. The priests inclined to to dismiss reports of miracles at Medjugorje (first as an insult to their intelligence and second as an embarrassment to the church) all seemed curiously muted.\u201d\u00a0<strong> -Randall Sullivan<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<hr>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow Mystic Post on Facebook By Stephen Ryan author of Vatican thriller and Amazon best seller The Madonna Files Randall Sullivan is a former agnostic, raised by atheists, an Ivy Leaguer,\u00a0and was a \u00a0contributing editor to Rolling Stone for over twenty years. 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