Today I ran 2 miles, okay it was sore but I feel okay and I am thankful.
So where is the miracle - well my little black boot was pretty miraculous - thanks to Bill N and the amazing staff at the RDNE for their help and advice - I am convinced that they do miraculous things every day.
But was my foot healing a miracle? Well there is a question. I am always very concerned about saying things like 'God healed my foot' - I have 2 huge issues - why me? I am not special and I certainly hope that God doesn't treat me any better than anyone else. My second issue is more pressing, 'why not others?' - I didn't want to break my foot but there are far worse things in the world and I would hope that, given a choice (though I am not sure that it quite works like that) that God would heal others ahead of me. I do want to proclaim a miracle but perhaps not what you might, at first, think. Before then though do I think that 'miracles' like foot healing can happen ? I guess that anything that is transcendent, beyond our understanding can be described as a miracle - can't it? The inexplicable is just that, we have not (yet) developed an understanding that is able to articulate the mechanics of a process or outcome. I think miracles happen.
As I ran today I felt something 'beyond', 'transcendent', a sense of well-being, grateful for my life, for my family and friends, grateful for the work that I believe God has called me to, grateful for the place I live and the people I have encountered. A feeling of peace.
Maybe the location of miracles are not in the object - in this case my foot, maybe they are instead located in the hearts and minds or those who notice and are thankful, those who see that despite the pain and darkness in the world, there is light and grace and mercy and love and dare I say healing.
A colleague of mine said something powerful to me last week about another subject, she said ' maybe these are kingdom things breaking through' - maybe like beauty, although intrinsic, is truly 'activated' when it is beheld I truly believe that the miracle in all of this is noticing these things.
