MIracle Stories

I love miracle stories -- like my becoming a Godwriter™ out of the blue!

Looking through another anthology, I found that Jack London is a miracle story. His father was an astrologer, and his mother a medium! He was not given much attention. He had hardly any education. He lived in a slum and, while still a boy, he did the physical work of a man. No one saw a good future ahead for Jack.

He was still in his teens when he went to the Yukon and really saw life in the raw. When he first started writing about the Yukon, editors thought he was making up fantastic absurdly unrealistic stuff such as a man’s fist going through another man’s cheek. But everything Jack wrote about was something he had seen or experienced himself.

It makes me wonder. From parents who presumably were not so worldly, Jack London was so connected to the Earth.

My eighth grade classes used to read The Call of the Wild. I must have read it at least 12 times, and I loved it each time. (Sally, I also recommend reading Martin Eden which is Jack London’s autobiographical novel.)

We have such easy lives today. Are we spoiled or what?

But where did Jack London’s talent come from? Whoever could have predicted that he would become a writer at all, and especially such a fine one.

I would also like to mention Jennifer Hudson as a miracle success story. As I understand it, she was just like anyone else who wanted to sing. Then she got chosen for American Idol. She did not come in first, and yet American Idol was her great opportunity, and she soared from then on. And now she has starred in Dream Girls and has a career as a singer and movie star. Isn’t that wonderful?

America is still a land of opportunity where dreams can come true. Of course, dreams can come true anywhere. Do you know of some other miracle stories?