A “small” miracle from God tonight
Is there such a thing? A “small” miracle? Just what is a miracle anyway? To me, a miracle is anything that works out due to unexpected, unusual, and/or humanly impossible means or methods.
My small miracle? Due to a recent encounter with fire ants, my feet and ankles are quite bitten and causing some suffering. I’m sure the effect would be worse if I had full feeling in them, but then, if I had that I wouldn’t be suffering from so many bites; I would have stopped them at the first one, not the first one felt.
I decided a hot, epsom salt bath would help. There I was, enjoying the bath and healing nature of the epsom salts, when I accidently rubbed body wash into my eye. I sloshed water up onto my face (eyes closed of course) until the sense of soapiness was gone. When I tried to open my eyes, I remembered the water had epsom salt in it, felt the burning, and closed my eyes again. So I sat, and decided what I needed, as I put my hands out to the sides in a “what shall I do” fashion. “What I need, God, is a wash cloth,” I thought. At that very moment I felt a cloth in my left hand. What??? I opened the good eye and saw my dog standing there, with cloth in mouth putting it into my outstretched hand! He hasn’t been taught that, and I didn’t say anything audibly, only to God, about what I needed. I don’t even know where he found it.
Of course, God and animals -and man before the fall- all spoke with each other I believe. Just because man fell out of fellowship and quit talking with God doesn’t mean God quit talking with His animals?!
I dried my face and opened both eyes. Good ole Caleb laid there on the rug, patiently waiting for me. Maybe some of you wouldn’t consider that a miracle at all. I have had much greater happen to me in my life. I believe that you need to acknowledge and thank God for even the small things before He trusts you with the larger. For me, this was one nifty little miracle. : )
September 25th, 2008 at 11:13 pm
That really was nifty.