Miracles

Miracles are happening everyday. We are too busy to notice. Babies are born, flowers bloom, birds return to their nests after a long winter, young Lex manages to spell all eight words correctly on his Friday spelling test. We seldom notice the day-to-day miracles because they are …well day-to-day. Then something big comes along and we sit up and take notice. One of those “big” miracles occurred on Sat. Apr 31. A former Buffalo, N.Y., firefighter, Don Herbert, who suffered brain damage in a 1995 fire had a sudden unexplained recovery. Mr. Herbert had been nearly silent and blind since his accident. Then on Saturday he matter-of-factly mentions to the attendant in his room, “I’d like to talk to my wife.” Knock me over with a feather. That’s a miracle.

And we know for sure that it’s a miracle because the doctors say so. See the natural miracles that are occurring countless times everyday aren’t really miracles because doctors don’t say, “Imagine two simple cells combine and nine months later the most complex creature imaginable emerges. From those two cells, he’s now made up of billions of different and varied cells which combine to perform different and varied functions. Truly, that’s a miracle.”

Well, Mr. Herbert’s return is certainly a miracle. It’s a miracle on a couple of levels. It’s a miracle that Mr. Herbert recovered and in today’s climate it’s a miracle that some soulless Lib wasn’t successful in having his feeding tube removed so that he could be allowed to die with dignity. It’s not a miracle but it’s something, the opposite of a miracle, I guess predictable might be a good word for the way the MSM refuses to mention Herbert’s case in connection to Terri Schaivo. I suspect that Mr. Herbert’s case, which has brought great joy to his family, is causing some pain for Terri’s parents. Who knows? That might have been Terri just in time for Christmas.

If the runaway bride is expected to apologize for taking a bus trip a couple of days before her wedding, shouldn’t Michael Schaivo and the MSM that rooted for Terri’s death also apologize? You know something like, “Hey how about that Don Herbert. Who’d a thunk it huh? Way to go Don! Geez I guess we all have some egg on faces after that little miracle. But you know, I’ve always said, and the polls back me up on this, that a death with dignity beats a life with purpose every time. Now, can we all just move on?”