Please Read These Words

Do you believe in miracles? An 80’s song proclaims, “All I need is a miracle… All I need is you.” Are we to understand that a person is a miracle? This is certainly one valid interpretation of this lyric. The point is, I am struck by the word miracle. I don’t have a dictionary open, but I think most would agree that a miracle happens when the assumed impossible is realized. Asking people whether or not they believe in miracles is one of those questions that goes well with any character assessment of our fellow humans. I find it interesting that asking, “Are you a person of faith?” may get a different response.Most people want to believe in miracles. I think that even the most cynical, hardened souls are apt to periodically climb on the bandwagons of endless possibility. I’d bet crisp new bills that any atheist in the funeral gathering will pray along with the faithful—uttering a few lines that contradict their daily spin toward the void… just in case. Believing in miracles is hip. There’s a high school guidance counselor poster saying, “You can do it!” in all of us. Our hopes and our dreams of manifesting what seems ridiculous transcend the dogmas of faith; and semantically, miracles are really not much different than faith. Faith is belief in that which we don’t wholly understand, and miracles are events transpiring outside of logic.I bring this up because we are living in a miracle; our origins can never be fully explained. If the origins of “God” or the “Prime Mover” were discovered, we would still sit around and wonder about the origins’ origins.As a resident of miracle Earth, and a child of the ‘80’s, I decided that I too need a miracle; and that miracle is clearly you. It is also every thought that brings us together. I don’t understand how we got here either, and I think some of you are scared about the miracle, or you think you’ve found a better one, and you hate other peoples’ miracles for not being as good as yours. You get scared about miracles who look different, talk different, and eat different foods. You think these other miracles are going to take your food and house, or worse, go to the movies with your daughter. Before you know it, some miracle finds the miracle of gunpowder and discovers the miracle of rapid extermination of lesser miracles free of the requirement to be a big muscle-bound miracle in order to protect your miracle. With gunpowder, miracles of any size can protect their miracle and their miracle daughters from the rather dirty miracles across town who believe in that totally lame miracle…