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Miracles are like buses…
It feels like the end of an era and now is a time for healing.
At last, the moment the world has been waiting for has arrived. It’s happened. Goodbye Mr. Trump, may I wish you a long, happy, invisible and inaudible retirement! And hello again humanity. It looks as if the new leader of the free world might actually be a human being. “Cometh the hour, cometh the man.”
And of course the vaccines have arrived. That’s nothing less than two miracles at the same time! “Cometh the Pfizer, cometh the AstraZeneca.”
The pandemic in the UK has left us exhausted, physically, mentally and emotionally. And so have the effects of Trumpism. Horrifying covid figures, cronic uncertainty, Brexit, world political events coming thick and fast – so much pain, so much suffering, so much conflict…
But thank heavens we live in an age of miracles. In fact every age is an age of miracles. The current miracles, and the ones that will save mankind this time round, are Joe Biden and the vaccines (great name for a band)! After that we will need a miracle for the planet, and I have a feeling once again that science, not politics, will provide the answer.
When you learn maritime navigation you learn how to work in harmony with nature, and then you get positive results. Nature always calls the shots, not politicians. That’s what science can do. That’s how the vaccines work, by giving the human immune system what it needs to defeat the virus. It’s not so much the vaccine that performs the miracle, it’s the human body.
Biden seems to understand the power of synergy, which is completely opposite to the destructive effects of conflict and isolationism. Synergy works by combining the efforts of two or more people or teams, each individual being an expert in their own fields, working closely together towards a common goal. In other words, the total far exceeds the sum of the parts. That’s how the vaccines have been created in record time.
Now if you’re an anti-vaxxer, it’s time to wake up and smell the coffee. Let me tell you a little story. There was a man living in a house which was being flooded. The rain kept coming and he had to move upstairs, and then finally into his attic until eventually he was sitting on his roof to escape the flood waters.
He started praying to god to save his life and god answered him saying he would. Then after a while some rescuers came by in a rubber dinghy and offered to rescue the man, but he said “no, I’m alright, god will save me.” And still the waters kept rising.
Shortly after that a helicopter hovered overhead and offered to lift him to safety, but again the man refused, saying “It’s OK, god will save me.
Eventually he drowned and when he arrived in heaven he found god and demanded indignantly, “you said you’d save my life, but I drowned. Why did you let that happen?”
God replied indignantly, “look, I sent you a rubber dinghy, I sent you a helicopter, what more do you want from me?”
The vaccine is your lifeboat. When someone throws you a line, grab it and jump on board. Existence works in mysterious ways.
See Dave’s new website, www.dave-robson.com, to find our more about his books, The Five Pillars of Happiness, How to be a Popular Crew, and The Amorous Adventures of Big Ben. For information about Dave’s writer’s group, The Pen & Ink Club, you can e-mail him at [email protected], or call 01722 505495
