VISION TO IDENTIFY YOUR MIRACLE

[Guest guest]

VISION TO IDENTIFY YOUR MIRACLE

Baba said, "It is my special characteristic to free any person, who surrenders

completely to me, and who worships Me faithfully, and who remembers Me, and

meditates on Me constantly" in Sri Sai Satcharitra, Ch.III.

Sometimes the answer to prayer comes in the form of a revelation. Nothing is

changed but you. But you are altered utterly, even as a blind man’s sight is

restored. And there is your answer, so obvious, yet so striking, you are half

convinced it could not have been there yesterday.

John Baldwin spent all he owned trying to found Lyceum Village, a village

dedicated to learning. It went bankrupt, leaving him mortgaged and in danger of

losing everything.

John Baldwin was a deeply religious man, so for 30 days he went out into a

solitary grove to make a covenant with God. Then on the 30th day, as he was

coming home, he noticed ledge of peculiar rock he had never before seen.

Reaching down, he picked up a slab.

"I examined the texture," he wrote, "the quality of grit. I took out my

pocket-knife and found the stone would put a keen edge on steel!"

Before the sun was down, John Baldwin had shaped the rock into grindstone. Here

was answer! It lead to the founding of the highly successful Berea grindstone

industry.

Then close on the heels of his first discovery, Baldwin conceived of a lathe.

It, too, proved successful, and riches poured on him, enabling him to fulfil

his part of the covenant by establishing a co-educational college in Berea, and

in Kansas, Louisiana and India.

In this last miracle, the reply to prayer was merely a sharpening of john

Baldwin’s vision, enabling him to see what had always been there. How ordinary

a reply to be termed a miracle. Yet without that vision, Baldwin might never

have seen the materials at hand, and so might never have succeeded.

(Written by E. F. Wells in Mira May-June 2004)