Miracles
How do we recognize a miracle? What color is it? How big? How small? Does a miracle come in a bottle? In a can? Does it come in a brightly colored box? What does one smell like? What shape is it? Does it even have a shape? Is it a solid, a liquid or a gas? How can we tell?
Does a miracle come through the telephone? Through a letter? Through a computer? Will we know it when we see it? Can a miracle arrive from someone we don’t know? Someone we’ve never met or spoken with? Can we get one from some guy sitting at his computer? Can we get one from a blog? Are anonymous miracles even allowed?
When we pray for a miracle, do we disallow certain kinds of miracles? Do we say, “That’s not the miracle I was expecting”? Will we let someone else tell us “that miracle is not for you”. Will we believe them? Should we? Are there only “approved” miracles?
Is it that our expectation that miracles can come only from the sweeping hand of an invisible God? Can a miracle come by God acting through people? Can we create miracles? Can we take actions that make miracles happen? Can a miracle come from the united efforts of hundreds of people working in the mere physical realm, if indeed such a thing exists?
If a miracle comes in a bottle, will we open that bottle? Will we refuse to open the bottle because we don’t think they can come that way?
We go to our story.
A man is trapped in his house by rising flood waters. The voice on the radio had said to get out, but our man didn’t think it would be that bad, so he stayed. The waters continued to rise so the man had to take refuge on the roof. Being a religious person he prayed to God to be saved.
A little while later a boat came by and they said “Get in the boat”. The man said not to worry because God would save him. Since there were other people to rescue, the boat went on its way. Still the water continued to rise. The man was standing on the top of his chimney when a helicopter appeared and they yelled at the man, “Grab on”. The man yelled back that God would save him and the helicopter left.
Finally the water swept the man from his house and he drowned. He went to the “Pearly Gates” and there was God. The man said, “I prayed for you to save me. Why did you let me drown?”
God said, “I told you on the radio to get out. I sent a boat and then I sent a helicopter. What the hell did you expect?”
How do we recognize a miracle?
on July 23, 2009 at 2:07 pm
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Thanks for posting about this, I would love to read more about this topic.
on July 25, 2009 at 7:49 pm
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There is plenty around the site. More coming soon!
on July 20, 2010 at 1:19 pm
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