A Miracle

~ Positive thinking by itself does not work. Your embodied vision, partnered with vibrant thinking, harmonized with active listening, and supported with your conscious action - will clear the path for your miracles. ~ Sumner M. Davenport 


The events that have transpired over the past two months in an isolated area of Chile has made me open my eyes and my soul to the subject of miracles. How do 33 miners, trapped so far below the earth survive for nearly 70 days? It is something that I am not sure that many of us can comprehend.


I have watched live coverage of numerous mining disasters over the years only to realize that the outcome is never usually positive. The Sago Mine disaster in 2006 in West Virginia was one that I will never forget. Thirteen trapped miners with their families and loved ones praying for days that they would be found alive. Communication (the number one failure in any emergency response effort) failed the families and loved ones of these miners. When all hope was dashed that the rescuers would find them alive a radio transmission relayed to the emergency operations/command center, was overheard and subsequently misunderstood from someone overhearing the conversations. Church bells started ringing as the word reaching the families was that their loved ones were found alive. Not soon after, the mood of celebration turned to shock and sadness again. News quickly got back to the families that there was a grieve communication mistake and that there was only one survivor out of the thirteen. The other 12 miners were not alive. One can say three was a miracle in that one young miner survived the ordeal that took the lives of all 12 of his colleagues. But for the other 12 families there was no miracle.

During the past week in Chile, the experience of watching one family at a time being brought forward to greet their loved one was awe-inspiring. Thirty three times and each time it brought tears to my eyes and goosebumps over my body coupled with the fact that I was truly watching the most inspiring and "feel good" event unfold before my eyes. What is a miracle I ask? ....Looking its definition up in a dictionary it is defined as "An event that appears inexplicable by the laws of nature and so is held to be supernatural in origin or an act of God: "Miracles are spontaneous, they cannot be summoned, but come of themselves"  ~ Katherine Anne Porter ~" Well there is no doubt in my mind that the events over the past week have proven to me that "I do believe in miracles!"