A TRUE STORY: THE DOLPHIN'S GIFT

(from Chicken Soup for the soul): I was in about 40 feet of water, alone. I knew I shouldn't have gone alone, but I was very competent & just took a chance. When I got a cramp, I realized at once how foolish I was. I was doubled up with stomach cramps, and could not even release my weight belt. I was sinking, frightened, & unable to move. I knew there was only a little more time before the oxygen tank ran out, and I would be out of air. I wasn't wearing a wet suit, but still could not straighten out, and could not get to the cramped muscles with my hands. I thought, "I can't go like this! I have things to do!" I just couldn't die anonymously, with no one to even know what happened to me. I called out in my mind, "SOMEBODY! SOMETHING! HELP ME!" I was not prepared for what happened. Suddenly, I felt a prodding from behind me under the armpit. I thought, "Oh no! Sharks!" I felt real terror & despair, but my arm was being lifted forcibly. Around into my field of vision came an eye---the most marvelous eye I could ever imagine. I swear it was smiling. It was the eye of a big dolphin. Looking into that eye, I KNEW I WAS SAFE. It moved farther forward, nudging under & hooking its dorsal fin below my armpit with my arm over its back. I relaxed, hugging it, flooded with relief. At the surface it drew me all the way into shore. It took me into water so shallow that I began to be concerned that it might be beached, & I pushed it back a little deeper, where it waited, watching me, I think, to see if I was all right. I was very tired, & when he made sure I was surely safe, he turned sideways with one eye looking into mine. We stayed that way for what seemed like a very long time, timeless, I guess, in a trance almost, with personal thoughts of the past going through my mind. Then he made just one sound, and went back to join the other dolphins. TRUE STORY! ♥**ALL CREATURES GREAT & SMALL, ALL THINGS BRIGHT & BEAUTIFUL, ALL THINGS WISE & WONDERFUL, GOD, THE CREATOR, MADE & LOVES THEM.....ALL!!!"♥

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