Collective Journalism | April 11, 2009 | 1 comment

Miracles Happen Everyday!

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It is a usual hot Summer day, the sun shines brightly. It was truly beautiful, as they sit around the pool-side. Those folks who aren't Swimmers, look on as others enjoy the ambiance of the day. Soon everyone is gone, except for the 4 of them.

A friend of theirs is swimming energetically back and forth, in the sweltering heat. "Isn't it rather hot out there?!," someone inquired,,,"Nope I'm fine!" His muffled sounds ring out. It was then his sister says, "I'm going in, (it is her home), Ralph is getting tired... You want to come in?!," she shouts as she leaves the breezeway near the Bathhouse. (Her husband is terminally ill) "No I'm going to stay out here and mess with John, (her brother), Mary said.

She sat back down, near the corner of the breezeway, out of sight from John. Soon Mary hears a faint sound..."Mary, Mary?! His voice was faint, barely audible...Being a Jokester, she thinks he is playing with her...But she does rise to take a look around the corner..It is then she realizes only the top of his head is visible...No more sounds are coming from him..."My God he's drowning, He's drowning!"....Frantcially she starts running looking for something, anything...By now, his sister and her aling husband, his brotherlin-law are rushing outside to the pool. Somehow no sounds would come from her, she could not scream..."Help!," as his sister freezes, saying....."Please don't drown?!"

There were pool rafts, and floats but they were too far away for her to retrieve.
All she could think of, as she was searching, "What will I say to his kids?!...She can't loose a brother and her husband...and my freind?!"

In her moment of terror, she manages to spot a water hose, wrapped up in the corner of the yard...Something inside her says, "Grab it, and throw it as hard as you can!" She does, as she watches it in what seems like slow motion. The rope drifts slowly downward into the water, his hands struggle desperately to grasp, ....His voiice is silent, head still covered with water. His hands frantically grab for the hose, while fumbling for it. It appears he's too weak...and then suddenly she feels his weight of his body tugging on the other end...Now she is kneeling down reeling him in.....

The two onlookers, say..."You saved his life...You saved his life!!!"

No?..she thinks for a split second..."It was a power much stronger than you and I......It is a Miracle."
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