Wisdoms from the Journey - Vol V (May to Dec 2012)

Miracles abound …
(12/08/2012)
“We have isolated ourselves from the transcendent. If we get sick, we go to
a doctor. If we need food, we go to a store and buy it. We don’t allow our
neighbors to share their sustenance, and we no longer allow our bodies to heal of
their own accord. Some would say that this is a sign of “progress”; that our
expanding intelligence has exposed the ignorance that used to have us believing in
errant myths & hollow miracles … I would like offer a different perspective:
namely, the Truth that our myths are still full of Wisdom – we simply choose to
ignore them; and that miracles still occur every single day – we simply choose to
look away.
You see, by removing acts of courageous intimacy from our everyday lives
-- the flagrant Faith that used to allow the miraculous to caress us regularly, it is
WE who have discarded the amazing from our thoughts and the wondrous from
our lives.
And yet the fact remains: as long as LOVE exists, miracles will remain.
Indeed, the ability we each have to Care for strangers (& even our enemies)
transcends both instinct & ego … Some would say that such a choice transcends
even science itself. And it is this LOVE unconditional that is the true wonder of
being Human. It is this ability to be Kind even in our darkest hours that gives our
lives deep Meaning.
This is the LOVE of the child that walks on the water of our Souls … It is
this LOVE that is nothing short of a miracle. And how wonderful it is that this
miracle will always be right beside us, waiting just beyond barely-closed doors …
waiting patiently to sustain us and guide us and heal us.
Of course, no food can
nourish unless it is first placed
on one’s table …
… and no doctor can
cure unless she is first invited
into one’s Home.”
(~ inspired by Shane Claiborne)
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