Miracles DO happen....

While my human is away, I want to share a little story that happened at Christmas time - a little Christmas miracle. This story isn’t really about us canines.  But we were witnesses – so I can tell it.  And it is a TRUE story. I meant to share it before – but I got so caught up with all of our gifts – I forgot to tell you this story… so better late than never!

My human has this old watch that belonged to her grandmother.  The band is not the original band, and the watch doesn’t even work.  It doesn’t wind. It doesn’t tick. She has thought about having it fixed – but never gets around to it.  Her mother gave it to her – it was just lying in her mother’s dresser drawer – and her mother said it had been broken forever.  

 My human wears the watch anyway.  She has for years.  She thinks it’s pretty, so she puts it on with other jewelry, and doesn’t care that it doesn’t tell time.  It has the initials of her grandparents on the back – so she thinks it’s special.

The week before Christmas, she went out with her sister and mother to dinner, and afterward they went for a drive see Christmas lights around the city.  She even got out and took photos. Several times. She was wearing the watch.

The next day,  she was going out and decided to wear the watch.  When she went to put it on, she noticed uh-oh – the crown was missing.  Oh no.  She looked around the jewelry box, looked on the floor – but realized it could have fallen off ANYWHERE.  So now the broken watch was also missing a piece.

On Christmas Eve, her sister and mother picked her up to go to church.  As she went to get into the back seat of her sister’s car, she saw something on the seat.  The CROWN!!!!!  Seriously!  What kind of Christmas miracle was THAT?!!!!  She was soooo excited.  That crown could have been lost anywhere – but there it was – right in front of her.  But the miracle didn’t end there…

On Christmas day, my human took the crown and carefully screwed it back onto the watch. Ah.  It was all together again.  And for some reason, she tried to wind it.  The watch could never be wound before.  It had been stuck.  Well.  It wound.  There is no second hand on the watch, so my human laughed and thought she would have to look at it in a minute or two and see if the hands moved.  You guessed it.  They did.  The watch is working…

You see Frodo in the picture with the watch, because I tried to eat it.  Now THAT would have given the story a VERY different ending!

So that was our little Christmas miracle.  It’s not a BIG miracle.  And it’s not earth shattering.  But it IS cool.

Sometimes miracles happen even when we’re not even asking for them! 

And a good news story is always nice to hear – even when it comes a little late!

©  2015  Linda Wozniak