In that early time in the morning when I first wake up, but don't want to get up, my mind is busy thinking.....reliving my day at school, planning summer stuff, planning my grocery list. This morning, I was back in the 4th grade. I was remembering one of the biggest "mysteries" of my life (course I hadn't lived that long yet....). While playing outside, I found a robin's nest, complete with 3 unbroken eggs, that had dislodged and fallen from a tree. What a find! I picked it up and put it safely in a hole under our front porch. I checked it every 5 minutes, waiting for the eggs to hatch. Nothing happened. By the end of the day, I was getting worried about what would happen to my little nest during the night without my protection. I decided to take it into my room. Knowing my Mom would surely have issues with that decision, I hid it under my bed, setting it next to the front bedfoot, where I could peek down and see it when I needed to. The next morning, still there, no babies.......I don't know the duration of the timespan past that point. Probably, being a typical kid, I moved on and "forgot" it was there. I don't know, I can't remember. What I DO remember, is the miracle that transpired....well, miracle by my standards at the time hahaha. I peaked under my bed to the resting spot of my little nest, and low and behold! The nest was gone, and in it's place was a SKELETON KEY! Oh, my gosh! What could be better than a skeleton key? NOTHING! I quickly ran to all the doors in the house, trying to find a door it would actually lock. None. But I didn't care, it was fun to have a skeleton key and better than having a nest with eggs that wouldn't hatch! I wondered for years where it came from. My Mom wasn't the type that would have done that. She would have thrown it away....like most Moms, I suppose. But maybe she was the type.....maybe for a moment, she remembered that inocence of being a kid and the total exhileration a good miracle.....or mystery!....can give a kid.......... The only other explanation would be God........and we all know, miracles happen everyday with Him around......{wink}
"People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle.But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth.Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds,green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle" -- Thich Nhat Hanh
Living in the moment......and my own miracle!
Lori
