James Hughes, 16, a local football player and onlooker for years, emerged triumphal with the cross....on Jan. 6, 2004...
Last year, Hughes didn’t do anything different than the other 16 divers...
He ate a good breakfast.
He listened to some rock ’n’ roll.
He thought about the cross.
But Hughes, then a Berkeley Preparatory School sophomore, recognized his chance the instant the white oak cross left the archbishop’s hand.
The lanky football player plunged into the 64-degree water.
Less than 5 seconds later, he came up sputtering with the cross in his hand.
“I saw this cross gleaming in the water and I just got it,” Hughes said.
“It kind of stood out in the dark muck.”
The crowd yelled in Greek....”Axios!” - Greek for “He is worthy!”...
“Jimmy, you did it!” came the cries from his friends as they hoisted him on their shoulders. Jimmy had ‘his epiphany which he will remember all his life…
The word ...epiphany....is used in a nonchurch context in James Joyce’s autobiographical novel ‘Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.’
The book describes the man, Stephen, and his personal epiphany on the beach.
In this case it meant....a startling insight, a realization or understanding that changes a person’s life.
A moment of...INSPIRED CLARITY.
Isn’t that what we all need from time to time in order to put our lives in proper prospective and focus?
What better time than a New Year to ask for and seek this....Gift of what I call …the serendipity of epiphany…..
May you....have your….Wake Up Call......today!
God Bless you....and may God continue to Bless.....America!