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Today's meditation from  Weekly Soul: Fifty-two Meditations on Meaningful, Joyful, and Peaceful Living   by Dr. Frederic Craigie. -2-   Miracles… seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off but upon our own perception being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.   Willa Cather   To behold the wondrous miracles of everyday life you have to see. Consider the miracle of moveable wall sections. For tens of thousands of years of human history, people created dwelling structures with portals for coming and going. They covered these portals with weavings or bear hides, which gave them some visual privacy and cut down the wind and cold, but were not particularly helpful in securing their homes against intruding animals or marauding neighbors. Then, somewhere, someone invented the hinge. With the hinge, everything changed. People could now mak...

  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...

  Just released: the audiobook edition of the spiritually inspiring memoir, GodSway by Diana Keathley. Book description: Diana Skidmore Keathley's journey-of-faith account details a lifetime of extraordinary divine encounters. Messages from God in her childhood were countered by episodes of engulfing fear, culminating in one terrifying attack. In a last-ditch effort to rid herself of the torment, she challenged God's love for her and trusted Him to overcome the darkness. God responded and filled her life with a heavenly outpouring of messages, dreams, and outright miracles, molding her into a woman of audacious faith in the powerfully loving and intimately involved Creator. BOOK AWARD LITERARY TITAN GOLD AWARD Paperback copies of this book can be purchased at the  MSI Press webstore   at 25% discount with coupon code FF25. For more posts about Diana and her book, click  HERE . Want to buy Diana's book and not have to pay for it? Ask your local library to purch...