by emad » Fri Oct 14, 2005 11:45 am
<!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://woodtv.images.worldnow.com/images/3961791_BG1.jpg">woodtv.images.worldnow.co...91_BG1.jpg</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><br><br>By Brad Edwards <br><br>(Jackson, October 10, 2005, 11:00 p.m.) In the often mundane of everyday life, some tend to look for extra meaning. That can come in many forms, whether it be a voice, a gesture, or a vision. And sometimes these things can take on a greater meaning.<br><br>This story started with a picture from a viewer. But really, it started with breakfast.<br><br>One Sunday morning, Myrna Kincaid's life changed with the flip of a pancake.<br><br>"Look at my pancake," she reflects. "It looks like, looks like the pope."<br><br>"I thought it could very well look like him," said Jay, her husband.<br><br>Instead of eating the pancake bite by bite, they stored it in the freezer and scurried to church. But, what to make of this, they thought.<br><br>Luke Galen is a Grand Valley State University professor who teaches a course on psychology in religion. "That one's pretty accurate as far as these pictures go," said Galen.<br><br>The Kincaids aren't the first to see religion in an everyday item. The Virgin Mary has been spotted in a tree, Baby Jesus in a pretzel, demons in the smoke billowing from the towers on Sept. 11, 2001, and the Lady Guadalupe salt stain in Chicago. There was even a Virgin Mary that appeared on a toasted cheese sandwich. It sold for $28,000 on Ebay, according to Galen. <br><br>Galen says something like this is nearly always pure coincidence with a scientific explanation. Simply put, the pope was randomly burned in by butter.<br><br>"If you were God, would you appear in a pancake or put it up in a cloud for everyone to see it like skywriting?" asks Galen.<br><br>Dr. Robert Marco is the Chair of Theology at Aquinas College. He says the pope in a pancake picture looks pretty accurate. But, he doubts it has religious meaning. He adds it is probably a fluke.<br><br>"We may see something in the very ordinary that relates us to something beyond us," Dr. Marco said. <br><br>The thought is that can be good for the individual, but probably not of God.<br><br>The Kincaids in Jackson don't really know why the picture appeared. But, three weeks to the day after the Father's Day revelation, they were blessed. Myrna had a baby boy who they decided to name John. And, John, they say, never cries.<br><br>As for the pancake, they plan to hang onto it because, they say, how often does that happen?<br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.woodtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3961791">www.woodtv.com/Global/sto...?S=3961791</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> <p></p><i></i>
