Miracles of God Part 14–107, Childhood, Family, Marriage & Love

I was born in Bolton, UK, on the 25th November 1977. The house number of our family home was 107. I lived here until I moved out when I was 19 to live with my first love and beautiful fiancee Clare in a 1 bedroom council flat.

Like many, many people around the world, I experienced various situations and circumstances when I was a child and in my teenage years, that weren’t what you may say positive or healthy. Experiences which, in an “ideal world”, you wouldn’t want your children to experience. Experiences mainly with people outside of my family.

My personal experiences led me to have a very, very negative perception of the number 107.

In my 20s and 30s, 107 would randomly “pop up” on a bus, in a book, on TV, on a telephone number, on various things. You may have a number yourself that you have a deep connection with, hopefully positive but maybe negative.

When I saw the number 107 my heart would sink and I would immediately think back to the bad memories I have from moments during the 1st 19 years of my life. To me, the number 107 meant evil. It was like I could never escape the memories of the things I experienced. I could never let go.

Thursday 18th April 2019

Here is a copy and paste from my journal on this date, the journal that I had started making a couple of weeks earlier titled “My Journey of Spiritual Awakening”:

As I’m sitting out the front eating my pizza, with the full moon having drawn me out with its beauty and brightness, I looked to my left and was drawn to the heart hanging up on the window. My thoughts then turned to how I’ve previously noticed that Clare had chosen to purchase and display a large number of love hearts throughout our entire home. I remember sometimes thinking about why she has chosen to display so many through our family home.

I sometimes felt it was Clare’s way of visibly trying to demonstrate how much love she has and how much love she wants to feel in our home. I recall feeling like the love hearts were Clare’s substitute for the lack of true love I was providing her.

I can now clearly see how, quite simply, the 37 love hearts on display throughout our stunning family home, is, quite simply, Clare’s expression of how much love she has for all her family, including me.

Now I’m off to count all the hearts. Quite frankly if there are 37 photos I take, I will be blown away….

The number 37 had simply come into my mind as I was sat outside.

How many symbols of love in our family home?

I started in our living room, taking photos each time I saw a love heart.

I went in to our downstairs rooms, spotting the love hearts, taking a photo of each one and adding it to the count.

The utility room

I moved into our utility. After taking a couple of photos of the love hearts I could see, I looked down and realised my shoelace was undone. I bent down to tie my shoelace. As I was doing my shoelace I looked to my right, and I saw another love heart. A love heart I hadn’t seen whilst stood up looking around.

I immediately thought “oh no, maybe I have missed other love hearts in other rooms, I better go back and make sure I haven’t missed any.”

I went back to the rooms I had already been in, and spotted a few more love hearts I had missed initially.

By this stage the number of love hearts was past the 37 I originally thought there could be. It was over 50 before I even went upstairs.

1.06am — 106 Love Hearts in Our Family Home!!

It was 1.06am in the morning on Friday 19th April 2019 when I finally finished counting every love heart in our family home. I was absolutely shattered. I opened back up my Day One journal app on my phone and typed the number 106 out. Here is my journal entry that I made, right before I fell asleep with my phone in my hand.

The morning after

I woke up the morning after with my phone on the bed. I unlocked my phone and the 1st thing I saw was this last journal entry I had made before I fell asleep.

I remember thinking “106!! I can’t believe there are this many symbols of love that Clare has brought in to our family home.”

Shortly after our 3 girls had woken up we all came downstairs and went into the kitchen. After putting the kettle on I thought I’d change the dishwasher.

The dishwasher

I opened the dishwasher to empty it, and my eyebrows suddenly raised. Here is what I saw.

107 Symbols of Love In Our Family Home!!!!

Oh my God! Suddenly, I felt a release. I felt a connection of love between the home I was born and raised in, and our beautiful family home we live in today. I suddenly comprehended that actually there had been an incredible amount of love within my family home from birth, no matter what darkness existed at various points.

107 suddenly became a number that represented love. Real love. Pure love. Family love. Parent to child love. Husband to wife love. Perfect love. Agape love.

Faith, Hope & Love Remain

Praise God for what He did here. I now rejoice whenever I see the number 107 on a bus, in a book, on TV, on a telephone number, on various things.

To now have this profound connection with the family home I was born into 42 years ago, with the family home I live in today with my family, it quite frankly, utterly profound.

To now see the number 107 as a number of love, not a number of evil, is absolutely beautiful.

Praise God. You are the way maker, the miracle worker.