Weekly Soul, Week 1 - Everything is a miracle.
Today's meditation from Weekly Soul: Fifty-two Meditations on Meaningful, Joyful, and Peaceful Living by Dr. Frederic Craigie. -1- There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is. Albert Einstein/Gilbert Fowler White A young woman hobbles to the shrine at Lourdes, throws away her crutches, and walks. A middle-aged man is diagnosed with inoperable liver cancer and six months later, it’s gone. A 5-month-old baby is discovered alive in the rubble of an earthquake in Nepal, having survived against all odds for nearly a day. Nineteen golfers in Colorado suffer a direct lightning strike and live. In our culture, we think about miracles in events like these; potentially-dire situations that turn out in ways that far exceed reasonable expectations or rational explanations. Sometimes, we embrace them; sometimes, we are skeptical. Almost always, they are cause for celebration. But spiritually...