Bless the Parking Fairies of Noosa

PLEASE don’t send church missionaries or The Inquisition around to our place, but my family is currently praying to the parking fairies.

At Noosa in January, we feel the appearance of vacant parking spots seems like the true Miracle Of Christmas.

Our current devotional obsession started off as a joke.

Hastings St, Noosa: where the super cool need the supernatural

My family holiday near Noosa every year, and we start each day with an early morning swimming pilgrimage to Laguna Bay. 

One morning we got a brilliant parking spot, and one of us made a toast to the parking fairies that night.

But for three days in a row, we have got a parking space just off Hastings Street.  Right near the Gaston café, so we can hop into the car with cappuccinos after the swim.

I don’t want to jinx it.  Should we keep offering a toast of champagne, or do these parking fairies need some more substantial form of offering?

Do we need to make a sacrifice that involves the spilling of blood, or should we leave out a serving of scrumptious food or alcohol at night, like we do for Santa Claus?

Here’s another question.

Is it profane to assume it is the work of parking fairies?  Should I be praying to God for the continued deliverance of convenient parking spaces?  

I don’t want to disturb Him or Her with such a trivial request, when They have so many more profound requests to handle.

My friend Pastor David would say it is the work of God. I can see him slightly shaking his head and patiently explaining it to me in a quiet voice, the one he uses for difficult customers.

Does St Christopher also handle requests for parking?

But, I would say, it seems like a bothersome request for the Almighty.  Maybe God has delegated decision making capabilities for parking down to an angel.  Or a saint.

Is there a patron saint for parking?  If so, there should be a shrine to this saint at Noosa at Christmas time.  The order maintaining this shrine would have celebrity status on the Sunshine Coast.

Or it might be a local deity at Noosa in charge of parking miracles.  Minor gods arise to explain to the most important of baffling phenomena to a local population.

And the sudden magical appearance of empty parking spots near the surf at Noosa must be an all-consuming subject of conversation to Noosa residents and visitors. 

Whether it is parking fairies, God or a local magical being, it has placed me in a metaphysical dilemma.

Whoever or whatever is responsible has delivered the goods, and their wrath or indifference must not be provoked.

But I am safe in assuming there is a degree of supernatural intervention.

As anyone who holidays at Noosa in January can attest, the appearance of free and available parking spots just next to Laguna Bay surely ranks as an eye-popping miracle.

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