Be a Miracle

 On the drive home today, I was thinking about Haiti and how frustrated I feel that I can’t do something tangible, something real, that has to do with healing.  There is going to be so much hurt, so much pain, for months and years to come.  We’ll forget about these people, go on with our lives, and still there will be so much to do.  So, I started crying.  My chest feels like it’s going to explode.  I just feel so connected to this, and I can’t figure out why.

Connected.  Interconnected.  We are all one.  The Dalai Lama wrote about a Buddhist image that illustrates interconnectedness.  Imagine a vast, celestial net.  At the intersection of every rope on the net, there is a jewel.  It’s a pristine, beautiful jewel.  It has many facets, and it reflects everything around it with brilliant clarity.

You are that jewel.

And in you there is the reflection of every other jewel in the net, in the web.

Every single other jewel.

That is interconnectedness.

So, I am going to keep on this path.  My oldest son gave me a Clifford the Big Red dog to send to Haiti.  I have a contact willing to make room for this one dog.  Someone handed me a plush Tigger today.  My mother is sending me a check for $25.  There are orphans arriving in the US, more to come every day.  There were about 400,000 of them in Haiti before this.  

I am just one man.  I can’t save the world, so don’t get pissed at me for not plunging into every cause out there.  If it means that much to you, go do it yourself.  Don’t wait.  Be vital.  Be indispensable.  Save a life.  Change a life.  I’ll do this.  You can join me.  Or you can pick up your own standard.  Or you can ignore me.  

I don’t care.  I have work to do.  I asked God for a miracle.  Then, I realized something…and this comes back to interconnectedness:

We shouldn’t ask FOR a miracle, we should ask to BE a miracle.  Be a miracle, and you will make other people into miracles, too.  We already are.  We just have to realize it.