Suppose you’re like any of the almost two billion members on TikTok. In that case, you’ve probably stumbled upon top-trending stitches like the store-bought pesto “crazy” story-sharing sensation and others that have likely kept you scrolling for longer than you intended. However, there’s a new stitch that’s making people question their faith, or rather, affirm it.
Recently, TikTok user Sara Morgan, who posts content from the handle @songwritersara, posted a video to the social media platform posing the question, “What’s the weirdest thing that ever happened to you that made you think God was real?” Morgan went on to say before sharing a story that started a few months after her father died, “I’m not talking about believing in some kind of universal energy. I’m talking about something that was so coincidental that Jesus Himself must’ve been sitting in your living room listening to you talk.”
She said, “If anything out there is listening to me at all, if there really is anything listening to me, I could use a sign that you’ve got my dad or that he’s okay because this is going to absolutely destroy me. I’m not going to survive it.” Later in the afternoon of the same day, her brother called. He asked during their phone call, “Do you remember that dream I had a few months back when Dad showed up at the house, but we all knew that he was gone, so it was weird that he was there ‘cause he’s not supposed to be there?”
Morgan continued, “I said, ‘Yeah, why?’” Her brother replied, “Because that dream picked back up last night right where it left off when he was asking for a cup of coffee. So I made him a cup of coffee, we sat down in the kitchen, we talked for a little while, and then he went to the front door to leave. He turned around when he got outside, and he looked me square in the face, and he said, ‘This is my last stop…tell Sara I’m okay.” Morgan said her brother said he was just calling to relay the message.
@songwritersara Maybe I’m crazy I dont know…#God #dreams #prayer ♬ original sound – SaraMorgan
In the weeks since, Sara Morgan’s video has been stitched hundreds of times, with some of the stitched videos garnering even more views than Morgan’s original. “Stitching” refers to a function within the app that allows you to fuse a previously posted video on TikTok with the one you’re creating. Another user, whose handle is @vikingfinancialgroup, stitched a simpler yet equally profound story in response. “Ever since I could remember, my mom always prayed at the foot of the bed, and she always prayed around lunchtime,” the user began.
He continued, “One day around 2005, I was at lunch, I was in high school, and I just got real still all of a sudden, and I had all those chill bumps on top of my head…In my mind, I saw my mom praying at a computer chair. And I thought to myself, “No, she doesn’t do that. She always prays at the foot of her bed. Always.” After he came home from school, he asked his mother where she had prayed that day. Understandably, her son’s question struck her as a bit odd. He continued, “She said, ‘You know what, my bed wasn’t made, and I had laundry on the bed. So, I just grabbed a computer chair, rolled it up, and started praying.”
The user said he couldn’t get his heart to “calm down for about 15 minutes.” He added, “I went to church my whole life…but until that moment, I had no clue God was real.”