With so much darkness around us in the news, it’s nice to take a walk on the Sunny Side.

Last week, we told you how rock-n-roll great Jon Bon Jovi happened to be in the right place at the right time to help rescue a woman who was threatening to jump off a bridge in Nashville.

Today, we’re here to tell you you don’t have to have gold records and great hair to be in the right place to save a life.

Man Capsized 30 Miles from Shore Rescued by Passing Fishermen

Last month, Graham Taylor was fishing 30 miles off the coast of New Bern, North Carolina when a rogue wave slammed his boat. “Within a split second, I was over the side of the boat and floating in the water,” he told ABC12. (Yes, the fact he’s telling the story to a TV station is a good clue how this story ends.)

Fortunately, Taylor was wearing a personal floatation device. But what he no longer had was a boat.

For an hour Taylor bobbed in the water, telling himself not to panic, hoping another fishing boat out on the ocean would come across him.

Meanwhile, Chad Price and David Holeman were out fishing as well, but their normal spot was too rough. They were puttering around, looking for a new spot to cast, when they came upon Taylor. In the water. In choppy seas, 30 miles off shore.

As Taylor told ABC12, “I don’t know what put him there, I have no idea, but he was there for a reason. He was there to see me and pick me up.”

Price saw the Divine Hand of God at work.

“I … believe that God leads you in certain pathways,” he said, “and I think that day even though it wasn’t anything we expected or were looking for, I think God put us crossing paths with Graham.”

Who, aside from Satan, doesn’t like a good miracle story?

Make that two good miracle stories …

20-Year-Old Wakes from Coma Weeks After Crash with 18-Wheeler

Last December 1, 20-year-old Davin Rowland of Mississippi collided with an 18-wheeler while in his work truck. That alone should have been ballgame for him.

First responders were able to use the jaws of life to extract Rowland from the twisted heap of metal, but he was in bad shape with a “devastating neurological injury.” He was in a coma; oxygen had been cut off to his brain for a period of time, long enough to suggest he had sustained permanent brain damage.

“There’s nothing we can do,” doctors told Rowland’s parents, as The Epoch Times reports.

But there was something his parents knew they could do: pray.

Rowland’s mom, Jennifer, organized a prayer chain to battle for her son. “God is going to heal him,” she said.

A day later, doctors said there was “no evidence” Rowland had suffered from oxygen deprivation — reversing their initial determination. (Yeah, you can start the praising now.) They said that Rowland, with time and hard work, had a chance to recover. However, he was still in a coma.

Two and a half weeks later, Rowland woke up.

With hard work and fervent prayer Davin was able to leave the hospital on May 1, five months to the day after slamming into the 18-wheeler. There’s still work to be done, and more prayer, but as Jennifer says now, “We’re just believing that God can heal him, no matter how long it takes.”

Al Perrotta is The Stream’s Washington bureau chief, coauthor with John Zmirak of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration, and coauthor of the counterterrorism memoir Hostile Intent: Protecting Yourself Against Terrorism.