It?s kind of funny how the meaning of words can change over time. ?Whenever I hear the word ?miracle? lately, I don?t think ?an act of god?. ?Instead I think ?oh, some more people are overlooking a simple explanation? or ?somebody?s declaring they have proof of magic after less than a second of investigation.? ?Or, at least, that?s what I thought when I heard of a tree in California that is weeping god?s tears.
Rosemarie Navarro, a parishioner at a Fresno, California Catholic Church says, ?I said my prayer and asked the Lord to give me a miracle cause I?m really, really sick.?
Navarro counts herself among the believers, a small but growing group that thinks the liquid dripping from this Crape Myrtle tree is the tears of God.
Parishioner Maria Ybarra says, ?When you say ?glory be to God in Jesus name? the tree starts throwing out more water.?
Water is dripping from a tree and you can think of no more likely explanation than god deciding the best way to help is not to cure your sickness, but to make water drip from a tree? ?Hell, why not just say the rain is god?s tears?
Like the rain, there?s a perfectly reasonable (and fitting) explanation for ?god?s tears?.
On close inspection, arborist Jon Reelhorn agrees, something is falling from the tree in front of St. Johns Cathedral. But it isn?t water.
?The aphides will suck the sap, the sap goes through the aphid and then it is a honey dew excrement from the aphid and it gets so heavy in the summertime that it will drip down,?? Reelhorn says.
He calls it a natural process. He also found another tree dripping across the street.
Yes Rosemarie, god?s tears are, in fact, aphid shit. ?They?re not as shit as standing in the face of something mundane and declaring it a miracle, but they?re still shit none the less. ?You asked for a miracle, that?s what god sent.
If you ask your doctors for a miracle, at least they?ll give you medicine. ?God couldn?t even be bothered to do that.
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