Random Moments and Everyday Miracles

Miracle:

A surprising and welcome event that is not explicable by natural or scientific laws and is considered to be divine. A highly improbable or extraordinary event, development, or accomplishment.

 



Wayne Dyer said, "Miracles come in moments. Be ready and willing."  For us miracles happen every single day.  I know this because at 26 our Scotty, who has defied so many odds, is still learning, still growing and still maturing.  He is by definition a miracle.

Random moments that to the ordinary person are just that...ordinary, but to us they are occurrences that are surprising, inexplicable, highly improbable and extraordinary.  I have compiled some random moments from the last few weeks...small flashes in time that are absolute proof that miracles happen.

 

 

There are two ways to live your life.

One is as though nothing is a miracle. 

The other is as though everything

is a miracle.

Albert Einstein

 

 

1.  Scotty's has taken to "reading" the paper while eating his cereal.  So cute!  And yes it is still very dark out...a much too early morning.  You know it is bad when you have had two cups of coffee by 6am.

 

 

2.  As we sat watching  morning mass together on EWTN he held up his bowl of cereal as an offering when the Priest held up the sacred host.  Together we watched the first televised  appearance of our new Pope, and at Scotty's urging we stood united with Catholics around the world, hands clasped and joined Pope Francis in praying the Our Father, Hail Mary and Glory Be.  Priceless...priceless...priceless.

 

3.  I truly believe our little Houdini has some heavenly assistance with breaking into all the locked doors.  He is still getting in...but when we check the doors they are still locked?  Grandma and Grandpas...not funny!

 

 

4. A few months ago Scotty was a holy terror and made it his mission on a daily basis to dump, destroy, and terrorize the villagers.

 

Exhausted from the ransacking!

 

 

 

 

 This was yesterday, but it was from playing...

 PLAYING with his toys and he cleaned up every single thing!

 

 

 5. Every single time he gets a boo boo or thinks he has a boo boo (which is daily for our little hypochondriac)  he hands us the phone to call the doctor.

 

6. During a little tantrum he picked up the remote control and instead of winging at my head he gently tossed it on the bed and walked away :)

 

7.  Last night at dinner he picked up his dishes and took them to the sink without us reminding him, but the astounding part was he came back and got mine!!!!!!  That has NEVER happened before.

 

 

 

 

8.  Each morning we have to clear all the "snakes" from the bathroom before he can get a shower.  He does this all during the day too.  He comes and lets me know that there is something scary under the fridge or in the bathroom.  Lucky for us our finger guns are always at the ready.  Such an imagination!

 



 9.  For the past few weeks he has been taking a shower and dressing himself without tantrums...a little whining...but no full blown nuclear explosions.  He is capable, but usually unwilling to participate. This is from today.

 

 

 

 

10.  His ability to multi-task seems to increase every single day.  Amazing focus in his otherwise very unfocused world.

 

 











 So many miracles for one little guy.  One of the sweetest things he does is run to the picture wall in the living room whenever something wonderful or exciting happens and puts his little hand up to his mouth, and babbles the bit of news to his sisters and it is so sweet.  It makes me cry every single time, because he misses them just as much as I do♥

 

 

Lastly, Scotty's friend Abby was leaving, after giving us some much needed respite, and he stopped her and gave her the "wait a minute" sign.  He very slowly and patiently searched his Ipad for his TapToTalk program for what he wanted to tell her.

 

The important thing he wanted to tell her was "I love you."

He left us all speechless and needless to

say there was not a dry eye in the house♥

 

 

Sometimes we will never know

the true value of a moment

until it becomes a memory.

~Unknown~

 

 

 

So funny, so cute and so sweet!