A reentrustment ritual, similar to the entrustment ritual described in Chapter l, can help both the parents and the first child at this difficult time.

And they asked them, saying, Is this your son, who ye say was born blind? how then doth he now see? His parents answered them and said, We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind […]

Heavy rain had so undermined the approach to the bridge at Mountnessing as to make it unsafe, and although Chelmsford and Colchester had decked themselves with flags and bunting, the train returned to London with grievous disappointment to all.

I can name numerous instantiations of this gift of luck at work in my hostʼs life.