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TheTime COIN<br />
Camille Anding<br />
Miracles! The word draws us and creates<br />
mystery and a bit (or a lot) of awe in most.<br />
We long for miracles and often just hearing of miracles renews our hopes and captures our<br />
attention again.<br />
I’ve read of many miracles, beginning with so many in the Bible. Some believe those kinds of<br />
miracles disappeared with the days of the disciples and apostles. I don’t! I believe miracles are still<br />
here - as long as we believe in a miracle-working God and his indwelling Spirit in his children.<br />
However, I’ve never witnessed a body of water split for a dry walk-through, and I’ve never had<br />
my spiritual eyes opened enough to see an army of angels encircling me. I’ve never watched anyone<br />
walk on water or heard and seen a single command turn a stormy sea into a glass-top surface.<br />
I would have been mesmerized to see thick clouds fall over a mountain and hear God’s Voice<br />
boom through the darkness, and to actually see the sun stand still would have been beyond my<br />
comprehension - but oh how I would have been an eager spectator.<br />
Yet, when I stop and consider miracles, I realize they are all around me - so<br />
many that I just take for granted. Gravity isn’t a subject that takes up any of my<br />
thinking space, but it’s a constant miracle in my life. Without gravity, I would float<br />
off into space along with anything or anyone that wasn’t tied down!<br />
Our universe is measured in billions, and there are galaxies that are so distant,<br />
a telescope has never come near them - and yet, here on earth’s planet, humans<br />
live and function daily - on the only life-inhabited planet that’s known.<br />
Even the animal kingdom is a network of the miraculous. Birds annually fly<br />
thousands of miles to migrate to warmer climates and then find their way back to<br />
their original location without any gadgets or road signs. When the hummingbirds<br />
return to my summer feeders, I never consider the miracles of their nonstop<br />
flights of up to 500 miles in a single day.<br />
It’s obvious that the scientific world can write volumes on the unexplainable and the hypothetical,<br />
but when I consider everyday miracles, I run out of brain space. The ability to see a rose in bloom<br />
and smell its fragrance, to be immediately sensitive to the touch of hot and cold, to hear sounds<br />
and have a brain to transmit their origin and meaning, to need sleep and stay in that mode for hours<br />
each 24-hour cycle, to be able to satisfy hunger with food.<br />
The list could be endless. Scientists continue to find unexplained miracles operating in the human<br />
body. So many of these scientists spend their lives in attempting to find a “how,” “where,” or “why,”<br />
to our universe and its occupants. I’m extremely grateful that God opened my spiritual eyes to his<br />
creation and miracles and gave me faith to believe in four simple words: “In the beginning God...”<br />
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