A MILLION LITTLE MIRACLESSýnishorn

Welcome to Wonderland

“There are only two ways to live your life,” said Albert Einstein. “One is as if nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.”

It’s not only God’s mercies that are new every morning. (Lamentations 3:22-23) It’s His miracles! Every day, without exception, we experience miracles big and small, visible and invisible, tangible and intangible.

“With God all things are possible.” (Matthew 19:26 NIV)

As you read these words, you are on a giant merry-go-round that is spinning on its axis at 1,000 miles per hour and speeding through space at 67,000 miles per hour. That is nothing short of miraculous, but we don’t give it a second thought.

Question.

When was the last time you thanked God for keeping us in orbit? For most of us, the answer is never.

When was the last time you praised God for dopamine? Or the seventh cranial nerve? Or the 118 elements that compose the periodic table? Or the 330 billion cells your body will recycle today?

Because God is so good at what God does, we take most miracles for granted.

We tend to think of miracles as the exceptions to the rule, and that’s one kind of miracle. There are miracles that defy the laws of nature, but the laws of nature are miraculous and mysterious in and of themselves.

“We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not the mere exception,” said G. K. Chesterton. “We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse.”

We praise God for anomalies and epiphanies, as we should. But these devotionals are about praising God for everything else—a million little miracles all too often overlooked and underappreciated.

Why is this so significant? There is a fine line between the mundane and the miraculous. If you see the miraculous as mundane, life becomes a bore. If you learn to discern the miraculous in the mundane, welcome to wonderland.

What was one thing recently that made you stop and realize that everyday life is miraculous?