Bruce Michael Miller: Music
Miracles 
The Story Behind The Song
MIRACLES
(Tim McGeary, Bruce Michael Miller)
Trevor was a very funny, smart compassionate person who
never said a mean word about anyone. He completed twelve years of
school and in his own words “never opened a book to study”. His
friends ranged from the valedictorian in high school to the learning-
disabled boy across the street. Parties weren't fun until Trevor arrived.
He was an advanced placement scholar and his teachers were amazed
at his exceptionally high-test scores. He played the drums like he lived
his life. He loved politics and was devoted to his grandma.
Trevor was at Amanda's, his girlfriend's house that Sunday
morning. Her dog got sick and they flipped a coin to see who would go
and buy the paper towels needed for clean up.Amanda never let him
drive her car.That morning she did. He arrived at the store to find that
he was fifty cents short of the cost. Rushing back for change, only a
block away, he turned in front of a speeding van. Trevor died instantly
from a brain injury. His internal organs, his face and body sustained no
trauma.
Shortly after Trevor's accident his mother, Carol, stepped outside
the front door of their home to find a white flower blooming in barren
sand in the middle of the dry season. Carol and Tim,Trevor's parents,
built their own home, lived there for years, and never planted this kind
of flower.The family stared in awe at this isolation of beauty. It stood
there for days and no one, not even the dog, stepped on it.A few days
later, Carol opened the door surprised. Around the single bloom were
five more of the same.
“Trevor's flower”, however, as they had started to call it had
closed up, not dead, just closed. Carol wondered if there was some
kind of meaning linked to the flowers. She ran into the house to call
Tim and as soon as she shut the door the phone rang. It was Yilian,
from LifeAlliance, the organ donation agency. She said that because of
Trevor they were able to recover seven organs for transplant, that this
act of kindness saved the lives of five people. Joy and sorrow ran down
Carol's face, for she knew right then what Trevor was telling her
through the flowers.
Trevor McGeary
January 28, 1988 - May 7, 2006
The flowers have never bloomed again.
MIRACLES ~ Tim McGeary, Bruce Michael Miller
They buried their son on Saturday
He’d barely turned eighteen
The next day one white flower grew
That they had never seen
And it never should have grown there
In the cold and stony soil
But they took it for a miracle
A message from their boy
Sometimes we don’t know why the things that happen
Happen like they do
Sometimes we cannot find the rhyme or reason
Hidden in the ruins
Sometimes it’s not for us to know
Sometimes the mystery is shown
Sometimes right out of rocky ground
Miracles are found
The next day five more flowers grew
In a circle around the first
They could feel his spirit close
When a call came from the nurse
She said no words can measure up
To the gifts that your son gave
But from the one that you lost
Five lives were saved
Chorus:
(Their son’s) heart is still beating in one man’s chest
Because of him another can take another breath
A blind girl sees the colors of her first sunset
Sometimes we don’t know why the things that happen
Happen like they do
Sometimes we cannot find the rhyme or reason
Hidden in the ruins
Sometimes the purpose is concealed
Sometimes the mystery’s revealed
Sometimes right out of rocky ground
Miracles are found