I'm Calling This My Miracle

The rational, logical, must see the evidence, lawyer side of myself, struggled with this, but in the end I felt I had experienced a miracle. What do you think?

About 2 months ago now, I was in Miami for 5 days to attend the CREF conference. On the day I arrived, a red light came on, on the phone that was located in my hotel room. I did not pay it close attention, but it had an alert about charging and I think, changing a battery.

Since I was not planning on using the phone, I ignored it until the next day when I wanted to call the front desk. That is when I discovered the phone was dead. No calls could come in or go out. I did not think I would need to use the room phone during my stay, so I did not ask the hotel to check and fix it. I dismissed it from my mind.

Fast forward to three days later. On the night before I left, I had a late dinner, an after-dinner hang out and motivational session with the other members of the Clinton Foundation and Rocky Mountain Institutes, Women In Renewable Energy (WIRE) network, for which I am an Ambassador and Mentor. Exhausted, I got into bed about 1/1:30 in the morning and set my cell phone to alarm at 3:45, in time for my hotel check out and 4:30 pick up.

I was awakened from a deep sleep by the ringing of the hotels phone. A colleague from WIRE was calling to find out why I had not come downstairs to check out for my ride to the airport. It was 4:45. I was horrified. I told her to go on without me and rushed to get ready so I could get a taxi to the airport. I was panicked. I was traveling to New York and since it was a domestic flight, I had not given myself the 3 hours that I normally would have for an international flight. I had very little time to play with and was at risk of missing the flight.

I showered, dressed and completed my packing as quickly as I could. When I was nearly ready, I decided to call the front desk from my room to get a porter for my luggage. I tried using the phone in my room. It was as dead as it had been for my entire stay at the hotel. I tried it 3 more times before I left the room. That phone did not work on any of the four occasions that I tried to use it. How then did it ring for the wake up call?

Puzzled, I took my luggage to the lobby, checked out, was in time to grab a taxi that had just swung into the hotel, got in and asked the driver to hurry. I made it to the airport, checked in for the flight, just about cut-off time, cleared security and rushed to the gate, praying and stepping, stepping and praying and running. As I reached the gate, boarding started.

Once I was seated on the aircraft, I checked my cell phone to find out what had gone wrong and why there had been no alarm. I discovered the alarm had rung, but I had turned the sound on my phone off during the meetings the day before, to prevent it from ringing during the working sessions of the conference and being an irritant to those attending. I had forgotten to turn it back on at the end of the meeting.

I did not know it at the time, but that morning, I was in double trouble. The sound on my cell phone was off and the phone in my hotel room was dead. Plus, I was exhausted and without help, I would not have awakened any time soon. Given that I barely made the flight, had the hotel phone not rung when it did, I would not have been on that plane.

How did that phone ring? Before and after the wake-up call from my colleague came in, the phone in my hotel room was totally dead. What do you think? Miracle or not?

Have you had similar experiences?

Not accident, not happenstance, not coincidence - a miracle. My #miracle.

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