Blog 407
November 16, 2025
MIRACLES NEVER CEASE!
Rev. Robert L. Wise, Ph.D. explores the world of divine interventions from an objective point of view. An Archbishop in the Communion of Evangelical Episcopal Churches with a Ph.D. and the author of 36 books, Rev. Wise relates his interviews with persons who experienced the touch of God.
THE GOLDEN FISH
Ed had been touched by reading psychiatrist M. Scott Peck’s book People of the Lie that demonstrated evil was real. In addition, he found Thomas Merton’s The Seven Story Mountain to be inspiring. Moreover, Dietrich Bonhoffer’s Cost of Discipleship proved to be equally compelling. At the time he was reading and exploring Freudian and Jungian ideas about the subconscious mind. Ed wasn’t sure what he believed and saw much of Christian thought as a product of the unconscious. He simply couldn’t decide. However, Ed Collins (name used for anonymity sake) continued to struggle with what he should believe. Then came the dream.
As a boy he fished in Candlewood Lake in Danbury, Connecticut. He had both fished from a boat and through the ice in the winter. In his dream, Ed was back on the ice fishing with a dear friend. He was surrounded by piles of snow and cold weather. When fishermen cut a hole in the ice, they had to sit there until a fish comes by which could take a long time in the bitter freezing weather.
To Ed’s surprise, in his dream a fish poked its head out of the hole in the ice. That simply never happened! Ed looked closer. The first appeared to have a golden color. He looked closer. The color wasn’t just yellow; the entire fish was golden. In fact, the fish was a giant Goldfish! (such never happens in that northern cold climate) Everything about the dream was a symbol of his own search.
Ed began to grasp the meaning of the fish. The Goldfish embodied the ancient Greek word for fish IXTHUS, which the earliest Christians understood was an anachronism for JESUS CHRIST THE SON OF GOD OUR SAVIOR. Far beyond an inner mental gymnastics gyration, His heavenly Father had touched him deeply. Using the symbolic world Ed had been exploring, God spoke to him. Ed knew his spiritual search had been answered. Jesus Christ was the living son of the heavenly Father. His quest had ended in a most surprising way by his Creator using the secret language of his own heart.
When he returned to work the next day, he shared his discovery with a friend in language that he had never used before. He said he had ‘accepted Jesus.’ As he spoke those words, Ed was flooded with joy. He has carried that joy for the last 31 years.
What about going “fishing?” Cold water can produce amazing warmth for the soul. Symbols in your own life might take on more meaning than you think for. The IXTHUS could be swimming by your house. Actually, that happens all the time.
Remember miracles never cease!
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