There is a beautiful story -a dying old man,striving to live on ,requests his one and only child to somehow try to get a little piece of wood from his master's stick,which was used to bless people ,as he felt that was his only hope for survival. The young man ,knowing this was not possible in any way ,went for a walk in the nearby woods in despair as he really could not fulfill  this wish of his ailing father .As he looked down in despair , he saw fragments of  wood from the trees around and a thought  occurred to him. Picking one fragment ,he ran back and gave it to his old father,saying that a miracle had happened -he somehow got a little piece of from the master's stick ,and that now that it was here,the old man should pray for his recovery 'Miraculously', as we may say ,the old man only got better by the day and was finally able to get up from his bed.