miracles

A transformed life is the greatest of all miracles. Every time a person is __orn again_ by repentance of sin and faith in Jesus Christ, the miracle of regeneration is performed.

The sad thing about miracles is that they__e unique. They can__ be explained, or shared, or duplicated. And they absolutely cannot be captured and made to perform on demand. If that day ever came, our world would die for lack of wonder.

What is a miracle if not the manifestation of light where darkness is expected?

Everything is going to be all right. Miracles happen every day.

Everything is going to be all right. Miracles happen everyday.

Don__ look. See.Don__ think. Feel.Don__ hear.Listen.Pay attentionMiracles really do happen every day

Life is the stuff of miracles.

The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle. Like, I will probably never be struck by lightening, or win a Nobel Prize, or become the dictator of a small nation in the Pacific Islands, or contract terminal ear cancer, or spontaneously combust. But if you consider all the unlikely things together, at least one of them will probably happen to each of us. I could have seen it rain frogs. I could have stepped foot on Mars. I could have been eaten by a whale. I could have married the Queen of England or survived months at sea. But my miracle was different. My miracle was this: out of all the houses in all the subdivisions in all of Florida, I ended up living next door to Margo Roth Spiegelman.

Another version of the __rosperity Gospel_ or __ame It and Claim It_ teaching has to do with finding a verse in the Bible and then __laiming_ that verse. Proponents of this thinking believe that God must fulfill his promise to us in whatever verse we are __laiming_ because what God says in his Word, the Bible, is true, and we can trust it to be true. So someone might pray: God, your Word says in Isaiah that by your stripes we are healed and I know you are not a liar and that your Word is true and I claim that Scripture in Jesus__ name and therefore I will be healed of this stomachache! We need to have faith in what the Bible says, but we have to be careful that we aren__ trying to force God to do what we want. That is arrogance rather than humility.God loves us, but we cannot demand things of him as though our faith is in charge rather than God. If someone believes it is our faith that heals us and forgets that it is God who does it, we should ask that person how much faith Lazarus had. Remember, he was decomposing in a tomb when Jesus raised him from death. His faith obviously didn__ matter. It was all God. It is God and God__ grace that heals, not our prayers and not our __aith._ Though we are exhorted by God to pray to him, we cannot compel him to do what we wish.

A Miracle is nothing more, than the removal of an Illusion".

May every day of the New Year be filled with glorious wonders.

In a universe devoid of life, any life at all would be immensely meaningful. We ARE that meaning. __nd what we see, __ays the poet Mary Oliver, __s the world that cannot cherish us, but which we cherish._ As though life itself is the great, universal, unrequited love of all time. But there is even more to this. Deep mystery. We are the universe aware of itself. We let the miracle get lost in distractions. On a planet so rich with living companions, much of humanity sentences itself to solitary confinement. Late at night, I used to lie in my boat listening to radio calls from ships to families ashore. There was only one conversation, and it boils down to, __ love you and I miss you: come home safe._ Connections make us individuals. Ironic, isn__ it? The more connected, the more unique our life becomes_

We need to make our own miracles, it is a wasted exercise to just wait for miracles to happen; they need a spark of energy and desire to make them come true.

If three steps are taken without any other motive than the desire to obey God, those three steps are miraculous; they are equally so whether they take place on dry land or on water.

It__ true that if your religion failed to deliver a miracle, that a human sacrifice would certainly follow.""Ah...quite. You are a man of acute insight.""That__ not insight. That__ a personal guarantee.

Miracles' rely on their observer__ ignorance. 'Perfection' relies on the observer__ failure to notice the observed__ defects.

But while they continued staring into one another__ face waiting for the miracle of science the pain grew worse.

Miracles can only inhabit the reality of our awareness when we surrender our need for the familiar to our desire for the limitless.