I used to think of miracles as the re-telling of a story. The kind of story that is difficult to imagine being true but the kind you really want to believe in.
When I was younger I thought miracles had to be of a religious sort to be really called miracles. You must have been touched by the hand of God or one of his Angels to qualify. After all miracles happened in the Bible, not so much at the mall right? I mean water into wine, feeding the masses…rising from the dead! You just don’t see that sort of thing happening in the food court or the cell phone kiosk.
As I got older and began to experience more of the world, I realized that the universe is a vast place full of amazing things we cannot understand or explain. But wasn’t that the definition of a miracle? I think my idea of what a miracle was expanded to more than just those in the bible but you know they still had this spiritual, other worldliness feel about them. Miracles just didn’t happen every day to regular people.
Is the idea of miracle just a way of explaining away something fantastic that we can’t understand..at least not today? After all, plenty of people probably thought magicians performed miracles rather than tricks and sleight of hand. Then again I have a belief that there really is magic in the world. Magic and miracles are not so far apart.
“I am realistic – I expect miracles.”
― Wayne W. Dyer
It has only been recently that I have realized there are many miracles that happen every day in this world. How could we not be in awe every single day?
You can find evidence of this everywhere. People who have terrible car crashes, but escape virtually unharmed. People win the lottery; are struck by lightning but survive, mothers who lift cars to save their child’s life and so on. The stories of people hearing whispers to wait or run and being saved from certain death (Angels?).
But look closer. There are every day miracles which we often overlook. Babies are born; the caterpillar emerges as a butterfly, flowers bloom, rain falls and kindness happens out of sight. You are alive and capable of creating joy and love. What you think of as every day, regular occurrences are in fact, worth another look. Miracles do indeed happen to regular every day people.
Everyday miracles. Every Single Day.
Look around. Life is joyous because even in at its darkest, miracles are happening. Big ones, and everyday ones. I can’t be bothered anymore to wait around for some big and flashy miracle when I am surrounded by them every single day. I already have enough to believe in miracles.
Have you a miracle you’d be willing to share? I’d love to hear it.
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It shouldn’t come as much of a secret, Bonnie, that I too, am a HUGE miracle believer. Like you, I was raised to believe that only biblical based miracles qualify to be called as such, but with age, I’ve grown to not only accept that miracles happen everyday; but that I myself am a miracle. There have been many instances and happenings where I’ve been spared – that in itself is a miracle. The fact that I didn’t swallow those pills two years ago is a miracle. I remember coming home one night after a evening of partying and drinking, walking from the train in Newark, NJ – when out of nowhere a car spun out of control and hit the wall just inches from where I was walking. If I would have been sober, I certainly would’ve been walking a little bit faster and would not be here typing this comment. That, my friend, was a miracle.
Yes, miracles still happen – in all the ways you listed above – and so much more. We need only acknowledge them and see them as the miracles they truly are.
I wrote a song called, “I Still Believe in Miracles.”
Not just the big league stuff…
everyday miracles.
Fabulous topic for a song most definitely!
Hi Bonnie,
I wish you a happy joyful day! thanks for the great Article……as Always an Ocean of Wisdom & Love!.
Marvin
Every day that I wake up, find my husband next to me is a miracle. Every day that I turn on the power for my computer is a miracle. Every morning when I go to the cupboard and there is food to eat is a miracle. And so on. The miracle is that I have this moment to comment on your blog
Awesome reply Roberta. Thank you
I once saw a bumper sticker that said; “Expect a miracle….Accept a miracle.” I agree that miracles are happening all around us and we must recognize them and accept them for what they are.
Love that sticker! It’s true. Seeing and acceptance are the keys to the miracles. Thanks for sharing that Janette!
I do believe in miracles. Maybe it was the terrible fall that split my head open and the doctors said told my parents that they shouldn’t hope too much and just the next day I was talking to them like nothing had happened. Miracles do happen; we just have to be there to recognize them!
Oh wow Hajra I had no idea such a thing happened to you. I’m so glad you and your family got the miracle of you!
A miracle is a favorable event that occurs at the propitious moment!
As always you have a way with words Roy.