When the Miraculous Happens

What happens when the miraculous happens in your presence?

Would you recognize it?

Recently, a person asked me how do you experiences miracles all the time. My answer was why don't you? But seriously why don't people normally experience these things. Miracles happen all the time everywhere. Our family has developed a perspective that looks for and engages the miraculous because we have seen its fruit first hand.

Does this village look special? This village experienced dreams, visions, healings, and miracles. Something was special about these people: They were looking.

You could compare it to a delicious dessert, once you try it you want more. You remember how it tasted, smelled, and how it looked. In the same way, once you have seen someone healed you want to see it again. You remember the feeling. You remember what and how it happened.

Perspective

Often when we do experience the miraculous it seems fairly ordinary until you put perspective to it. My sister broke her leg this summer. It was a very bad spiral fraction. The first diagnosis was not good: surgery, pins, and therapy. We prayed over it. The next doctor's appointment a week later the bones had grown back together. The doctors responses was this was very strange but good. Our response was, "Its a miracle!". Where would your perspective lie? Do you look at what is right in front of you or do you see more?

Ultimately how you see the world affects how you live in it. If you look for gray you will see gray, but if you look of more you will see the whole spectrum that makes up the gray. The village above is on a small forgotten island. Nothing really happened there, until we went there with a group to pray. After praying miracles happened: a man was having dreams of hope and us, another man was healed, and so much more. The people were looking for hope, and they found it. One thing I know about the miraculous is you can't predict it, but it always brings hope. So keep your eyes open, your heart ready, and your soul abiding. The miraculous is near.