SUPERNATURAL - Evidence for Miracles in Everyday Life

Chapter 4 - Excerpt

This is a parable. This is also a true story.

There once was a man who owned a pair of sunglasses for many years. He liked the sunglasses because they made him look handsome and protected his aging eyes from the sun.

Over the years the glasses fell into disrepair. He made the trek through the green hills back to the hut where he bought the sunglasses. The glassworkers happily repaired and polished them to look as good as new. 

One day the man found his sunglasses needed yet another repair. He returned to the hut where a somber glassworker relayed the news that there was nothing more they could do. One of the small holes that connected the lenses to the arm was stripped and beyond repair. The man left disappointed but not discouraged. In no time at all he found a solution.

The man found his fishing pole and cut a small piece of fishing line. He connected the arm to the sunglasses threading the fishing line through the now stripped hole where the tiny screw once lived. Using overhand knots the man quickly repaired the glasses.

For quite a long time this worked. When the fishing line failed with all the folding and bending, the man cut another piece and tied it all back together once again.

The sunglasses developed another problem. If they were laid down too hard or fell from the man’s hands to the ground, as sunglasses are apt to do, the left lens would pop out like a kernel of corn in a pot full of hot oil. The man was annoyed when this happened but as he had grown more fond of his ragtag pair of sunglasses he found a way to pop the lens back in and keep on with life. 

Then one fateful day the sunglasses met their untimely end.

One evening while the man was picking up his daughter he forgot he had placed the sunglasses in the passenger’s seat. It was nighttime and the man’s daughter didn’t see them. Without realizing it the daughter sat on the glasses, smashing and bending them terribly. The man did not realize this until the next day. He was sad but worked to see if he could somehow bend the frame back into a somewhat wearable shape. He could and he did! The sunglasses lived to see another day!

Some weeks later the man mindlessly placed the sunglasses back in the passenger seat. Then one day after a meeting, he took a friend home. Again, it was dark and the man forgot about his sunglasses. His friend innocently sat on the sunglasses crushing them once again. This time there would be no repair. The man was heartbroken but knew he needed another pair to protect his eyes.

The man went back to the hut and found the perfect pair of sunglasses. There was only one problem, they cost $295. The man knew that he would have them for years but did not think it wise to spend $300 on a pair of sunglasses.

The man searched other stores, looked online, and even went to the big box retailers hoping to find a somewhat reasonably priced pair of similar glasses. The man did not have any luck. 

Day and night the man wrestled with what to do. Finally, he concluded it was not wise to spend so much money on a pair of glasses and decided to go without. Then something strange happened . . .

The man loved to run both for exercise and for pleasure. He ran in the heat and he ran in the cold. He ran when it was wet and when it was dry.

One day at the end of a run the man slowed to a walk to cool down. It was common for the man to walk with his head down because he often pondered deep thoughts and staring down at the ground encouraged contemplation and minimized distractions.

On this day as he walked beneath an underpass, he looked down to see a pile of rubbish filled with rocks, sand, and garbage. This was a common sight on this section of road because it was a place where the unhoused congregated and stormwater pooled collecting silt and garbage.

As the man passed by the trash, something caught his eye. It looked like a small box. The man continued walking but was stopped by a thought urging him to go back and investigate the little box in the pile of trash. So he did.

The man looked around to see if anyone was watching. He felt embarrassed that someone he knew might catch him scrounging through the trash but he did it anyway and found the box. The small box looked very much like a sunglasses case. The man knelt down to get a better look. He picked up the little box and opened it. Inside was a pair of sunglasses, “No way! You’ve got to be kidding me!” the man said, wonder-struck. 

The man took the sunglasses home and cleaned them. They were a perfectly fine pair of sunglasses and his girlfriend loved them!

The man noticed on the arm of the sunglasses the name TOM FORD. Out of curiosity and not recognizing the brand the man searched online for the sunglasses. Within a few minutes, he found the exact pair. and the price . . . $285.

The man laughed. He had found his new pair of sunglasses or better said they found him!