Miracles: Step by Step
It
recently occurred to me that throughout my life I've experienced quite a few very
unusual incidents. At the time that these incidents occurred they seemed normal…
nothing unusual or out of the ordinary. But when I reviewed them afterward, I
began to realize that there was something very extraordinary about them. Something
that was unusual to the point of being mystical… and even miraculous. One
of the more important realizations I had about these miracles is that they don't
happen all of a sudden. They
happen step by step... as this incident illustrates:
On Sunday mornings, Wayne and I used to love wallowing in the Seattle Sunday papers…
laughing at the comics sections, enjoying the glossy feature magazines, and once
in a while actually reading the news. However, when we lived out in the boondocks
of Quilcene, our mailbox wasn't large enough to stuff the thick Sunday editions
of both Seattle papers in it. So Wayne would kindly drive to the nearest grocery
store… which was in the town of Quilcene, a drive of about fifteen miles from
our house… and pick up both papers. One
Sunday morning as he was preparing to leave he turned to me and asked, "Can I
bring you anything?" "Yeah.
Bring me a surprise," I answered. He
looked at me with confusion. "What kind of surprise," he finally asked.
"Well, if I tell you it won't be a surprise. Will it?" I answered. He
just looked at me blankly and after a few moments turned and walked out to his
truck. As I heard him roaring down our dirt driveway to the highway I wondered
what he could possibly find in Quilcene that would surprise me. After all, Quilcene
was a dinky logging town with one small grocery store/gas station, a post office,
a farm supply store and a tavern. There wasn't much in that town that would or
could surprise me.
Or so I thought. After
some time I heard his truck roaring back up the driveway and into our front yard.
As he came stomping into the house with his arms full of newspapers, he had a
huge grin on his face. "This
is going to be interesting," I thought.
He dropped the newspapers on the kitchen table and stood looking at me with a
wide grin splitting his face. "Well, I got your surprise. Are you ready?" he said
smugly. "Okay.
Lay it on me," I said. He
stuck his hand inside his jacket and pulled out a huge tail feather of a Bald
Eagle. As he handed it to me, he began to tell me the unusual story of how he
got it. "I
was driving along the highway, wondering what the heck a surprise from Quilcene
would look like. What could there possibly be in Quilcene that would be even close
to a surprise. Then all of a sudden something hit the windshield, jolting me out
of my thoughts about your surprise. I almost ran off the road. It stuck to the
windshield for a few moments, just long enough for me to see that it was a huge
feather. Then it flew off the windshield toward the ditch along the road. I stopped
real quick and jumped out of my truck to try to find it. And there, lying in the
tall grass in the ditch, was this feather. Is a Bald Eagle feather a good enough
surprise?" he said smugly.
I was speechless. Not only was it a magical miracle that a Bald Eagle feather
would fall out of the sky and hit the windshield of his truck, it was just as
amazing that he actually stopped to find it.
To this day, that feather remains one of my favorite nature "finds". I keep it
in a large glass vase on the table in my Crystal Room, along with a few other
Eagle feathers I've been blessed to find in the bushes and on the ground during
our hikes near a local Eagle nesting area. Every time I look at that feather,
I'm reminded of the fact that miracles happen when you least expect them… and
in ways you might never imagine. The
Steps of This Miracle: 1.
Before he left to drive into Quilcene to get the Sunday papers, Wayne asked me
if I wanted anything from town. 2. I was inspired to ask him for a surprise.
3. My request for a surprise jolted him out of his normal thought patterns.
4. On the drive to Quilcene, Wayne was still focused on my request for a surprise.
5. When the feather hit the windshield of his truck, it jerked him out of
his musing. 6. He was motivated to stop and try to find the feather that had
hit his windshield. 7. He discovered the Bald Eagle feather and realized that
it was the surprise that I'd asked for. 8. Wayne proudly presented his "surprise"
to me when he returned home. This
story may awaken in you a memory of a wondrous experience that you've had. Should
this occur, I invite you to allow your mind to drift back to that event... to
your own miracle. You may wish to gather paper and pen in order to make a few
notes about the steps of your own miraculous experience. Doing so will awaken
in you a greater awareness of all the miracles you've experienced and continue
to experience in your own life. Love, Kathy ps.
This is one of the many miracles I've experienced in my life, many of which are
in my newest ebook, Miracles:
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