Another Type of Miracle

Recently I was present when the gift of a new computer was presented to a young woman who has had a tough, challenging life, including drug-addicted parents, abandonment, abuse, and her own addictions. Now in her early twenties, sober and the single mother of an infant girl, she has decided to go back to school and make something good of her life.

Touched by the kindness of the gift, this young woman dissolved into tears, put her head down on the table and sobbed, and didn’t regain composure for several minutes. I sensed that she had not ever received a gift of this magnitude.

As I drove home, I felt I had witnessed a miracle. This morning I read this passage from A Course in Miracles: “A major contribution of miracles is their strength in releasing a person from his misplaced sense of isolation, deprivation, and lack.” Yes. That’s what I saw.

You write it: When have you witnessed this type of miracle?