Being a Part of Someone Else’s Miracle

I give thanks for every little miracle that happens to me, even when it’s not my miracle! I thank and celebrate the lights that stay green when I’m driving the car, or when a checkout counter opens up when there’s a big queue at the supermarket. I believe that the more you celebrate the little miracles, then more will come your way!

Sometimes, being a part of someone else’s miracle is just as important – except in my story, my miracle was expensive! To set the scene, my husband and I were flying from London to Oslo, Norway. We needed to take two trains to the airport, a plane, and finally another train to get to the city centre. Train one, stopped and sat still for twenty minutes where a fire had caused everything to standstill, requiring us to get a taxi for train number two. Train two was great, but we found out the plane was delayed by an hour! When we landed, we ran through the airport to get to the last train, but we missed it by 5 minutes. The only option was a taxi, which would cost 2,000 Norwegian Koruna.

I’ve been to countries where thousands didn’t mean the same as it did to the British Pound and my mind at 1 o’clock in the morning wasn’t really processing it, but I checked and found out that it was costing me £150 for a 40 minute drive! To make the most of this taxi, I asked the driver about the city, what to eat and where to go as a local. He was kind in his replies, and must have felt comfortable enough to joke with us about missing the last train and having to get a taxi. 

“It was lucky for me,” he said. 

And in that moment, I realised that I was part of a miracle for him. I didn’t need to know the whole story, but miracles happen all the time, we just need to be open to the possibility to them happening to us, and for us to help others experience a miracle too.