Do You Believe in Miracles?

mir·a·cle

"a surprising and welcome event that is not explicable by natural or scientific laws and is therefore considered to be the work of a divine agency."


🐎Age 4, I fell off a fully galloping horse and landed on the ground unscathed.

🗻Age 13, I stumbled from the top of a mountain and fell, somersaulting 3 times down the incline, then smacking down on a flat outcropping of earth in between some boulders. Only got bruises. 

🧎Age 17, On a silent retreat and the leader gave me a sealed note and said, "Open it whenever feels right to you". At the end of the day, I was kneeling on a boat dock rapping directly to God about the beauty of the lake, and the trees, and my friends, and my gratitude for just being alive. I rapped and sang until my knees hurt. Taking a break, I opened the note. It said, "Get on your knees and sing praise to God, stay longer than is comfortable"


  ---➤ Were these events "the work of divine agency" or could they be "explicable by natural or scientific laws"?







What do you think? 


Morgan Freeman played God in the films Bruce Almighty and Evan Almighty, and did a pretty good job– which gives him credibility on the subject of miracles.
Did you know he actually produced a documentary about miracles too?
The final scene ends with these words:     




"To believe in miracles is to believe that there is more to life than meets the eye.

To accept there could be something that unites us. 

So many souls pass through this world, and as our paths cross, miraculous things can and do happen. 

People get the breaks they always wanted.

People inspire one another.

People fall in love.


And whether these events are orchestrated by the hand of God, the power of the mind, or just a one in a million chance, I believe we should believe in miracles.

Because miracles, however you define them, help us to…. well they give us hope. 

They drive us to create reality out of possibility."








48:56 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEyV8o2dp7M  
to hear his deep, reassuring, and authoritative voice say it. 

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