The Modest Miracle

          "Why didn't you snap at her?" asked the boy's friend.           "I did...a little," said the boy.           The boy's friend looked him up and down.           "You don't look angry, though."           The boy shook his head contemplatively.           "But she told you off in front of all your friends."           "Yes."           "And got up in your grill to tell you all the ways you need to shape up."           "Yes."           "And made you look like a fool."           The boy sighed, "Yeah."           "So why is she still your friend?" asked the friend bewilderedly.           The boy shrugged in such a way that his friend knew that he knew the answer perfectly well but just didn't want to come out with it.           "Come on man, what gives?   You've been acting real funny lately."           &qu

         Have you ever thought about the potential you have to change another person's life?  It's easy to feel sometimes like you're locked inside a safety deposit box of your own problems while everyone around you is skipping cheerfully through their lives without a care in the world.  It's easy to think that the interactions that we have with others every day aren't important.  It's hard to see the walls the people next to us huddle behind for security.  But they are there.  Consider these statistics of unfortunate happenings in the United States: 25% of adults have a mental illness https://www.cdc.gov/mentalhealthsurveillance/ A person dies every 12 seconds https://www.census.gov/popclock/ Around 100 divorces occur every hour https://www.mckinleyirvin.com/Family-Law-Blog/2012/October/32-Shocking-Divorce-Statistics.aspx 2/3 of people experience at least one traumatic event before age 16 https://www.addictionhope.com/t