Living The Life That God Has For Us....

God's Plumbline Ministries is called to repair devastation in the lives of God's people allowing restoration both physically and spiritually. Providing creative solutions for employment, education and life skills allowing God to repair and restore hope.  Empowering each community to establish a secure foundation both inside and out, while keeping in tact God given talents and uniqueness, not focusing on man's ways but God's ways.  Developing working relationships within social and economic circles, working hand in hand with community leaders to bring the love and compassion of Jesus Christ. 

Monday, January 25, 2010

What Exactly Is A Miracle?


Over the past few days I have been thinking about how we (me) define miracles.
"What exactly is a miracle?"
My definition has changed over the past week.

Wickapedia says "A miracle is a perceptible interruption of the laws of nature, such that can be attempted to be explained by divine intervention, and is sometimes associated with a miracle worker. Some suggest that God may work with the laws of nature to perform what we perceive as miracles.
A miracle is often considered a fortuitous event: compare with an Act of God.
In casual usage, "miracle" may also refer to any statistically unlikely but beneficial event, (such as the survival of a natural disaster) or even which regarded as "wonderful" regardless of its likelihood, such as birth.
Other miracles might be: survival of a terminal illness, escaping a life threatening situation or 'beating the odds."


Maybe it depends on how you look at life - is the glass half full or half empty?

I am also wondering was the miracle the "bigness" of the use of the Kids R Kids airplane or the hundreds of things that snowballed because of the use of the airplane for so many hurting people?

All of the above examples seem to apply, interruption of the laws of nature, divine intervention, and statistically unlikely but beneficial events so they both, big and small, seem like miracles to me.

Miracle Number One:
All the sewing ladies are fine!! Woot!!
Marjorie is fine, but living with her family in a friends yard because she can't go back to her house.

Miracle Number Two:
I was given three huge duffel bags full of purses to ship out for the ladies in Haiti to sell via the web-site.
www.haitiancreations.com
It leaves me speechless to know that out of all that has happened, God still knew that these ladies would need a way to continue to take care of themselves and their families.

I LOVE that miracles come in all shapes and sizes!
I LOVE that they happen suddenly!

Bottom line - I LOVE that they happen to me, to the sewing ladies and to you!

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