Today was our holiday party at work. To decorate, we had tiny tealight candles on the table. (remember that, it's important). After the lunch, I'm repacking my door prize and set the tissue paper from my bag by the (seemingly) unlit candle.
WHOOSH!
THe tissue paper goes up in flames. Panicking, I grab the paper as my coworkers are throwing soda and ice on it (one is frantically looking for a fire extinguisher which, by the way, was behind me the whole time). I relize, belatedly, that the paper in my hand is also on fire and drop it.
The fire goes out quickly after one last WHOOSH and I have no burn marks on me, even though I had my hand in flames.
I like to think it was a minor miracle that I wasn't burned. What do you think?
2006-12-20 04:58:48 · 6 answers · asked by sister steph 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It certainly was lucky if nothing else. No harm in believing that your guardian angel was watching out for you.
2006-12-20 05:01:56 · answer #1 · answered by art_tchr_phx 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It is not a miracle . light stuff when burns burns quickly and the flame also dies out very quicly. We are experienceing a big miracle every day. We are travelling at a speed of 1166 miles per hour with the earth . The earth spins around its own axis and it makes one full revoluton in 24 hours . the circumfrence of the eath being about 28000 miles , we should be travelling at a speed of moe than 1000 miles per hour .We are used to things and machines moving only if they are powered by some engines using fuel . is it not a miracle to find the inanaimate earth spinnig around its own axis at a speed of more than 1000 miles per hour without spending any fuel for millions of years ? is it not a miacle that we never feel like standing topsy turvy and always stand firmly grounded due to gravity which we even do not at all feel while we lift our feet to walk.? is there any miracle greater than that ?
2006-12-20 13:13:48 · answer #2 · answered by Infinity 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I think it was a question of physics. The burning temperature of decorative tissue paper is unlikely to cause any significant burning of human skin (especially fo the hand, which tends to have thicker skin) for the brief amount of time that you were holding it.
Try grabbing the nozzle of a lit acetylene torch for the same amount of time and see what happens.
And it's a good reminder to always be paying attention when around open flames.
2006-12-20 13:04:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Praise be! A piece of paper caught on fire after touching a candle!? What else could it be but God!?
2006-12-20 13:06:59 · answer #4 · answered by numbnuts 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Give Him the glory.
2006-12-20 13:01:45 · answer #5 · answered by tas211 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm glad you weren't burned.
2006-12-20 13:02:26 · answer #6 · answered by Samurai Jack 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋