Wednesday, April 27, 2005

What is a miracle?

My generation, not unlike those who have gone before, have done a great job of hijacking particular words - Gay, cool, fundamentalist, etc In one way its a sign of heathy and vibrant society that we can morph terminology to fit context and meaning. In some ways it can be frustrating.
Does the word MIRACLE fit in there?

"It's a miracle I found a parking spot"
"The Twins won - its a miracle"
"They were miraculously healed from cancer after the chemo and drug treatment"

If your definition of miracle is limited to the suspension of God's natural laws, or the direct intervention of God in any moment in time - then perhaps it does. God is so unbox-able that I feel some true miracles are slipping our attention.
Somewhere along that spectrum of thought - our bikes that were stolen have been found again!
In what can only be described as both a suspension of natural law and possibly God's direct intervention in a moment of time, a phone call from the St. Louis Park police confirmed that our two stolen bikes had been recovered and were still rideable.
Praise the Lord indeed!

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Simon:

In my humble opinion, the Twins winning has to be in the miraclous category!!

Tim Barnes

2:00 PM  
Blogger Tom said...

When the Twins win, it's luck. When the Cubs when, it's a miracle.

8:00 PM  

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