When desperate people look to the divine for help, it is up to the writer to bring their gaze down and look to each other. Unless you plan to write God in as a character, these stories follow this natural progression: look to thyself and find no strength, reach out around you and find no one, fall to your knees and beg for a miracle, find another lonely soul nearby crying out for one as well, find the spark of the divine in each other. I like stories like these, though. People are lonely. Writing stories like this offer a little hope that loneliness will soon be abated.

I feel like I've seen this 80's/90's kind of movie many times before with Santa in place of an angel, but still.. 1-800-MIRACLE (Comedy/Drama) When a skeezy sex-line operator buys out an eclectic competitor, he's unexpectedly touched by one of the messages left on one of his new numbers by a young child. When he helps her anonymously, the world becomes convinced that the number is a direct line to Heaven and it becomes his most successful property that he must now defend from a notorious televangelist who wants the number for himself.

"...the Great Artisan mandated that this creature who would receive nothing proper to himself shall have joint possession of whatever nature had been given to any other creature. He made man a creature of indeterminate and indifferent nature, and, placing him in the middle of the world, said to him "Adam, we give you no fixed place to live, no form that is peculiar to you, nor any function that is yours alone. According to your desires and judgment, you will have and possess whatever place to live, whatever form, and whatever functions you yourself choose. All other things have a limited and fixed nature prescribed and bounded by our laws. You, with no limit or no bound, may choose for yourself the limits and bounds of your nature. We have placed you at the world's center so that you may survey everything else in the world. We have made you neither of heavenly nor of earthly stuff, neither mortal nor immortal, so that with free choice and dignity, you may fashion yourself into whatever form you choose. To you is granted the power of degrading yourself into the lower forms of life, the beasts, and to you is granted the power, contained in your intellect and judgment, to be reborn into the higher forms, the divine." --- Oration on the Dignity of Man, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1486)