Expect Miracles

I have a friend who immigrated to the US from Germany in 1960. She tells me that she would have done anything in the world to release herself from the prospect of working in her government assigned postal job for her entire working life. She feels to stay would have been suicide.

She packed herself and her young son off to the US,-her second choice after failure to secure entry into Canada. She did not speak English. She had $50. She knew nothing of NYC, where she landed, …and she knew no one. She paid $48.00 for a week’s lodgings. That left $2.00 for food for two until she made some money. Even in 1960, that was….motivating!

By the end of the week she was employed as an au pair with a wealthy German family. Soon she was enrolled in English class…and she has flourished. Hers is an amazing and wonderful story. I was in her company, at their summer house in Long Beach, when we watched the Berlin Wall fall. I came to understand the story of a family long divided, finally being able to re-unite.

There were tremendous tears of joy.

My heart remembers that afternoon...
and that crappy little TV...
and that dicey network reception....
delivering unexpected and miraculous news!

BraveHeart Thoughts?


Linda Carol Berry

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