Miracles

Miracles               11-22-2014

By John W. Vander Velden

We live in a technical age, and believe we can explain everything.  Advances in science show secrets that have until recently eluded us.  It comes therefor that the term miracle carries little weight.  A word that belongs to the unenlightened…a word that described what had once been unexplainable…but of things now understood.  Yet with each new discovery other questions arise.  And though we may feel that each question will one day shed its secrets, have we ignored the possibilities of the unexplainable.

Should we not take care to open our minds to concepts beyond present understanding?  For some feel if it cannot be explained it does not exist.  I find that view far too narrow.  For we are surrounded by things only recently discovered.  Did they not exist before? 

Have we allowed ourselves to be isolated from “the mud and blood” of life, certain that we understand what is real and what is not.  How fortunate I have been to have lived immersed in earthy realities of my life’s profession – not that each experience was pleasant.  But I have heard the first gasp of breath of a newborn calf.  Observed, as on spindly unsteady legs, it made its first attempts to stand.  I have watched rows of corn grow.  Hurried as summer storm clouds came marching across the sky.  My life has been bound to the sun and seasons– to planting and harvest – to births and deaths. 

You see no matter how hard we try to explain – everything – even the explanations reveal miracles at work.  Each of us are surrounded by wonders explainable and not.  My world is filled with miracles…and so is yours.  

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