The Miracle on Sunrise Highway

By Donna Passarella

            My husband Michael and I were driving home from our friends’ wedding in Long Island, New York.  We were leading friends who were in their car behind us to Sunrise Highway, which is a busy main road.

            We had stopped at the traffic light at the Sunrise Highway intersection.  It was dusk.  There was a slight incline on our side of the intersection and a decline on the opposite side.

            All of a sudden we heard a loud noise.  A car had hit the curb across from us at high speed and become airborne.  Its headlights were shining into our front window as the car arched into midair. 

            For me, time suddenly slowed down drastically.  I remember thinking, “We are going to die!” and remembering my mother’s unusual warning as we had left for the wedding to be especially careful on Long Island.  Had she known? 

            Suddenly an image rose up in front of our car.  Its back was towards me.  It was very tall, maybe 7 or 8 feet. All I could see was the outline of the figure:  a head, arms upraised, clothed in a robe.  My first thought was that it was Jesus.  Perhaps it was an angel.  All I know is that it was a solid three-dimensional figure similar to glass or ice, which you can see through.  It looked wavy like a road looks in the distance on a very hot day. In actuality all this happened in a heartbeat.
             The car was airborne and heading for our windshield when this figure caught it and turned it in midair so that it came down just to the left of Michael’s window on the driver’s side, bounced and continued to careen down the road.  We both took a deep breath and looked at each other in disbelief.  When we go out of the car, the people that were following us were already out of their car and screaming,  “Did you see that?  Did you see that? The car turned in midair!  How did that happen?  How did that happen?”

            They had not seen the figure, but they did see the result of the figure’s intervention.  We were all amazed and very grateful.

            To this day it is the most incredible, dramatic display of God’s love and protection I have ever witnessed.