On the nature of miracles

"The miracles on earth are the laws of heaven."

-- Jean Paul Richter

"There are no miracles for those who have no faith."

-- French Proverb

"Out of great difficulties and great faith grow miracles."

-- Jean De La Bruyere

"Where there is great love there are always great miracles."

-- Willa Cather

"I have never seen a greater monster or miracle than myself."

-- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

"I am the ultimate realist; I love indiscriminately and expect miracles."

-- Wayne Dyer

"Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this earth."

-- David Sarnoff

"The spirit of man can endure only so much, and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it."

-- John Burroughs

"Miracles occur naturally as expressions of genuine love. The real miracle is the depth of love that inspires them, and the magnitude of surrender it takes to release it. In this sense, everything that comes from such love is a perfect miracle."

-- Marianne Williamson

My life is such an amazing flurry of perfect miracles these days, and they emerge perfectly out of total chaos and confusion, and I am celebrating and savoring every minute of every one, and if you were to ask me why they're happening, I would have to say there were five key ingredients: First, there is great difficulty (and I am genuinely thankful that life is not comfortable and easy for me, where I just get complacent and lazy, and that it is constantly metamorphosizing), which invites deep, penetrating faith in the process (where the frequent testing actually expands it), which invites a total surrender (obedience being such a powerful instigator or invoker of God-action), unleashing great, unconditional love (which is not available from any other source), which reveals and uncovers startling miracles (clearly amazing life-giving, purpose-sustaining "happenings" that could not have been orchestrated or produced by me, and yet there I am right in the midst of them).

"Whatever you're doing inside of me
It feels like chaos, but somehow there's peace
It's hard to surrender to what I can't see
but I'm giving in to something heavenly ..."

chorus to "Whatever You're Doing (Something Heavenly), by Sanctus Real



It all follows this natural progression, like breathing:
Damn, Ouch, Ugh! (I feel my life's pain) ...
I believe (I feel my spirit come alive) ...
There You are (saying "Here I Am") ...
You say what!? (followed by obedience, sometimes painful surrender) ...
there you are (I finally see you, because His eyes have become available) ...
how in the world did that happen? (miracle expressed and received)

So, as Wayne says above: "I am the ultimate realist; I love indiscriminately (basically, wherever He says so) and expect miracles."