Prayer

[Asmodee]

You can't name a single miracle, Old or New Testament, which didn't have a clear, inarguable purpose.  Do you really thing the sun thing in 1917 had a "clear, inarguable purpose"?  What was that purpose?  It seems like the only purpose would be to convince people that miracles are real, but that doesn't jive with the teachings of Jesus, who refused to perform miracles just to prove they were real.

The obvious ones like being healed from an illness, Jesus' rising from the dead, apparitions which told people some specific information, have their obvious purposes. As for the rest, I really don't know. I don't know why God chooses to send signs of His existence to specific people. I've had something supernatural happen in front of me that I would call a miracle, and I wonder all the time what the purpose of it was, or why it happened to me. I really don't know.

I gather this is not a conversation you would like to have in-depth, and that's okay.  Brevity aside, you have managed to answer much of what I was asking.  Though it does bring up more questions, I will refrain from asking them.  I am curious as to what this miracle you saw is, but perhaps that's too personal.  I used to be religious and I know how personal an experience can be.