These are tough times. It is easy to get a little down with all the changes the coronavirus has brought to our world. My mom lives in an assisted living facility in New York. The other day she was telling me about all the Little Miracles in her world.

She loves something sweet with her toast at breakfast and the kitchen that makes her breakfast keeps forgetting to get her jelly or honey. That day in the mail she received a jar of organic honey from my cousin in Hawaii. It was a Little Miracle.

She loves the FaceTime calls with her great grandchildren, Emma and  Declan on weekday mornings. To be able to watch and interact with them is a Little Miracle

At nights when it is quiet in her room pictures and videos of her great grandchildren Max, Dylan and Hadley will pop up on her iPhone. She doesn’t know how they get there she just loves it when they do. It is a Little Miracle.

Mom gets her focus on the positive from her father. My Gramps had every right to be a bitter man, but he was one of the most positive people I have ever known. He was an orphan, he was a major amputee losing his leg in WW1, He was a widower at an early age.

I remember visiting him when he was 90 years old and him telling me: “Paul, don’t get this old”. At first, I thought he was depressed, then he followed up with a chuckle saying: “Yup, there is more of me out of bed than in the bed when I go to bed at night. I take off my leg. I take out my teeth. I take off my glasses. I have this plate in my head from that boat accident, but I can’t take it out… He founds ways to be a positive influence on all of his 10 grandchildren.

I am a little sad seeing pictures of the drive-by hello at mom’s assisted living facility on Mother’s Day, but I have to channel a little of my inner mom-mom and Gramps. Heck, they could put Prozac in the water-system and it would not offset the negativity of the nightly news. These are tough times. We all need to focus on the positives. We all have lots of Little Miracles in our lives. I am just one very lucky guy to have had Mom and Gramps in my life. It is more than a Little Miracle.