Miracles Surround The World

Picture this: Waking up at 5:30am to prepare for a school competition/meet. You cannot drive yet so you go to wake up your mother, she's not in her bed (you assume she's in the bathroom) so you tell your dad and he tells you he will drive you. It seems like a simple offer, but then you go back to wake him ten-fifteen minutes later and your mom still isn't there. She wasn't down stairs and she wasn't with the kids. You're in the car and you ask your dad: "Where's mom?" He says "She's fine." Then where is she is all that runs in your mind. "Is she hurt? Did something happen?" He shook his head and says he'll tell you later. You think the worst, where did she go? Did she run? Only to learn your grandfather had a heart attack the night before, the one that came in for an early Christmas from Michigan....

My grandfather suffered a severe heart attack on December 17 at 3:30am. On that fateful Saturday I did not get any notices of his condition. I awaited a text, a call, something, anything while at a meet for speech. I learned later he was improving, yet then the next day he was near death and they weren't sure that he was going to make it. By December 23, he was stabilized. He was going to be alright. It was concluded that he was a miracle case, a one in a million chance. They originally thought he would need a transplant of something else, yet he didn't. His minimal heart function (15-20%) has done all the work, compensating for the other parts that aren't functioning. Yet, even though he believed that he'd be safe and ok as did we, he is not the main point. He was blessed with miracles on those fateful days. Yet, aren't we all?

Miracles like having access to a computer instead of being on the streets. Miracles like having family and friends to help you through your hardest times. Miracles like having food on the table. Like having gifts for Christmas. Like having generous enough people that will give to those less fortunate. Like being able to hear. Like being able to see. Like having the medical advances that exist. Like having pets. Like having health. Like being able to read. Like being able to write. Sappy, yes, but lies? No. All true. Miracles come in large and small forms, whether its being able to live another day or see someone you miss dearly or just having a family. All of these things are miracles and even though they are not constantly called miracles they are. Just because the whole world doesn't acknowledge them as so doesn't mean they don't exist. Miracles surround you, me, my family, friends, neighbors, strangers. Whether you are religious or not, faithful or unfaithful, believer or non, miracles will continue to reveal themselves. Slowly and in small places, but no matter what miracles will surround the world.

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