This story occurred after praying and believing that a miracle would come my way, and it did! You just have to keep believing it will happen!

Back in the late 1980s, interest rates skyrocketed to 27%, which was just crazy. We thought for sure we would lose our home as our mortgage payment tripled! We were so worried.

Well, while out on business, I was in Fort Erie, Ontario. I concluded my work and went home, which was about two hours away on Highway 403. It was closed for a serious accident both ways, and an air ambulance had been dispatched. They expected it to be closed for about three hours.
Well, I wasn’t going back to work, so I went to Fort Erie Casino. I had like $100 with me, so I sat down at a  5 cent machine to play. I had taken out my contact lenses as the blowing of the air conditioning made my eyes dry.

I played a couple of rounds and won $500! I cashed out, had a coffee, and thought I would play that machine again. Well, it turns out the 5 cent machine was a $5 machine, a little rich for me. Then, I thought that I would try a different machine. It was a three cherry machine, and I bet one coin at a time and was up about $100. The lovely lady next to me was talking to me nonstop, and I hit the jackpot! I yelled out, “I won another $500!”

The lady next to me was jumping up and down and said, “No, no, you won $50,000!” I had, I guess, hit three coins when I was talking, although I don’t recall that, but in any case, I hit the jackpot. It was so exciting! Well, it takes about 2 hours to break down the machine, so I went and played a $5 triple cash machine in the corner. I bet one coin, and bang! I won $9,000! Then I went to the next triple cash machine, one coin, bang, $13,000, and it just kept going and going!

By the time I left there 3 hours later, I had $82,000, which was just incredible!

We paid off the mortgage, and we could not stop giving thanks for everything! Although this happened before The Secret, the principles are exactly the same.