CS Lewis: "I don't pray to change God. I pray to change me." He told that to someone who asked what he asked God for when his wife was dying. I personally don't believe God "steps in" arbitrarily for things like that. I like what our founding fathers, who were mostly Deists believed: Something along the lines of, "Whenever someone tells you a miracle happened, you have to either believe all the laws of physics and nature were suddenly circumvented, or somebody is lying. Knowing human nature, I have to believe the latter."