Everyday Miracles, Miracles Every Day:

Christmastime is a time for miracles. “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government will be upon his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.” (Isaiah 9:6)  But this isn’t the only time of year that we can see the miraculous.  I believe there are many everyday miracles and there are miracles that happen every day.

For miracles to happen we have to believe in the possibilities.  If we give way to skepticism, negativity, and despair, we greatly reduce our chances for experiencing a miracle.  Negative energy saps us of possibility thoughts.

I personally know people by all logic and reason should have died many years ago.  Why did these people survive?  I cannot answer that question.  There is no logical explanation only the observation that they were full of positive energy and a strong will to survive.  For every one of these miracles there seems to be an incident where doing everything right still doesn’t produce our desired outcome.  Why miracles for some but not for others?

Also amazing to me are the “everyday miracles.”  The flowers that bloom in spring, the baby birds that hatch from the nested eggs, the rainbow after a summer storm; these are the events that keep me in awe.  Yes each of these is an easily explained natural phenomena but the precision with which our natural world must be assembled in order for these events to be possible, that is the real miracle.

Can we learn from the precision of nature?  I believe we can. Every detail that makes life possible is an amazing miracle.  If conditions on our planet are altered by just the smallest bit, the balance of life changes.  It does not mean that all life ends, it just means the balance of life changes.  There were once oceans where we now have desserts and forests where we now have farms and glaciers where we now have forests.  In our own lives, we can take charge of change and create the conditions that allow for changes that are just as dramatic as creating desserts, growing forests, or melting glaciers.

Common everyday miracles are the simple things like the birth of a child and the love of a mother.  There are so many things that can go wrong and so few explanations as to why but when everything goes right, we see the true miracle.  A miracle that happens every day is the fact that people bounce back from adversity and pain and suffering.  It would be so easy to give up but somehow, people miraculously find the strength to go on.

Getting up and moving forward when we’ve had the wind knocked out of us, that is our own miracle.  We do it every day.  We persevere and we move ahead and we make the world a better place.  Yes miracles happen all the time.  They happen when our spirit prevails over the darkness that would have us give up.