We were visiting my great-aunt and uncle in Wisconsin one weekend. Since we were there on a Sunday, we went to the tiny Newville Sunday School. At one point the Superintendent (an elderly man who looked around 90) asked a question of the everyone. “Why do you think we don’t see miracles today.” Dead silence. Finally a teacher ventured, “Because we don’t have enough faith?” “Yes,” he replied, “We don’t have enough faith today.” He went on to talk about faith, but I was stuck on miracles and have been ever since.

Are there still miracles? My problem is I’m not sure what a miracle is. I think a common understanding is that a miracle is an intervention by God into the world. The problem with that understanding is that everything that happens is a result of God’s action. Without God’s action, there wouldn’t be a world in the first place. Often I find that what people call miracles are simply things that can’t be explained by the laws of science. That assumes, of course, that we know all the laws of science and know exactly how they function in any situation.

My own opinion is that since God is in charge all the time, everything is miraculous. As Mei Li sings in “Flower Drum Song,” “A hundred million miracles are happening every day.” Why don’t we see miracles today? Maybe because we have our eyes closed and don’t look. Plant a seed and watch it grow. If that isn’t miraculous, I don’t know what is.

Read Psalm 77:14 and remember: God loves YOU unconditionally.

Wayne