Miracles Are Easy To Find When You Look...

2010-05-08

When I think of a miracle, I usually think of something BIG, like the stories you read about someone healing from an incurable disease, or someone surviving an accident that it seems impossible anyone could walk away from.  But I was recently reminded that little miracles occur each and every day, and that in the hecticness of life, they are easy to overlook.  But when you take the time to look for them, you will discover that miracles surround us, if we take the time to look for them.

Living in the South we don't often experience extremely cold winters, but this year we did.  Most of the plants on our property are tropical and don't do well in extended periods of cold - which we had.  Many of our plants died, or at least we thought they did. I was getting ready to pull them from our pool area the other day, and noticed the "sticks" that I was getting ready to pull out, had suddenly come back to life and were sprouting new leaves!!!  I couldn't believe it - these plants looked as though there was no chance they would or could come back. As you can see from the photos, one is already filled with healthy, beautiful leaves.  The other photos show what that plant looked like just a week or two ago...and if you look close you will see a new leaves sprouting from the other plants as well!! 

So on my gratitude list for today is thankfulness for this reminder - that things can look pretty bleak, as though there is no hope.  And suddenly, without reason and quite unexpectedly, new life can sprout...things can turn around.  Miracles are not only possible, but can be found everywhere, if we only take the time to look.  ~ Andrea Chervenak  :-)