R' Elimelech Biderman related a story which he was told by R'Brodiansky ZT'L one of the Dean's of Yeshivat Kol Torah. R'Brodianski was riding in a taxi cab and during casual conversation, the cab driver related the following story:

I went on a camping trip with a group of people and in the middle of the night we were awaken by the shouts of one of the members of our group. When we looked we saw that a huge poisonous snake had wrapped himself entirely around the frightened man. Nobody knew what to do or how to save the man. Everyone was fearful for their own lives as well. The tour guide had a gun with him and he said he would have to shoot the snake in the head in order to at least make sure the snake didn't go after anyone else. The danger was imminent and it was clear if the tour guide misfired he would inevitably kill the man who the snake was wrapped around. There was another member of the group who was a religious man and he asked the tour guide to give him a few moments before he fired. He approached the man who was surrounded by the snake and instructed him to repeat after him Shema Yisrael. As soon as he finished, the snake unwound himself from the man and slithered away without harming anyone. Rav Brodianski turned to the cab driver and asked him what happened with the man who the snake was wrapped around. He said that the man was so moved from the entire incident that he re-evaluated his entire life and decided live an observant life.

Rav Bordianski then asked the can driver "and what about you"? How has it changed you? The cab driver looked at Rav Brodianski and said "me, the snake wasn't wrapped around me". We see many things in our lives, many incidents that are miraculous but if we don't experience them directly they may not impact us in the way that they should. We don't need to wait for a snake to be wrapped around us G-d Forbid, we can open our eyes and see the miracles around us.

Shabbat Shalom,

Heath