Miracle

 Trailer homes, though the term is politically incorrect in the U.S. today, is a lived reality as far as the daily business of living is concerned in the U.S. These makeshift homes that can be hitched to a trailer are currently called manufactured homes.

In the state of Missouri, a miracle happened in one such trailer, eh, manufactured home. There was a horrible tornado with a deadly wind speed. Nor did the tornado uproot mighty trees alone, it also blew off the tin roofs of such mobile homes.

In one such household, the fury of the tornado lifted up the air stream a bassinet with a four month old baby in it! The father tried to cover both, the bassinet and the baby in it. He, too, was lifted up the current, and dashed aside. Up flew the bassinet with the baby, while the mother grabbed, and saved his elder four year old sibling from the wall that came crushing down.

The father went in search of the cradle, sure of certain calamity. Wonder of wonders (though the temptation to call it 'wind-er of wind-ers' is much too much), the baby was found alive, cradled in the branches of a fallen tree.  The entire family survived this terrible catastrophe with a few scratches, and the father's dislocated shoulder. 

Now this is indeed nothing short of a miracle. The religious there may remember the month, and its significance. In my opinion, however, the real miracle would be if the family forever remembers the charmed  charter for living granted to them by Life, Existence, God Almighty, however you may choose to call it.

Hope they do not waste this charmed, and charming, second chance in self-centred orgies of individualism, caged behind closed doors of egotism. The real miracle would be if each of them spends a lifetime brimming with benevolence, creativity and joy. Such a tribute to the grandeur granting them literally a second lease of life would be the real miracle. What say?

Pratima@ Said Albert Einstein, "your whole life is a miracle." Indeed it should be lived that way, in gratitude to the very many chances life allowed us!