Because the moment you decide that something miraculous is still possible, you have already let a little bit of it in.
A true miracle is an event that has no business happening in the predictable arithmetic of our lives. It is the exception that breaks the rule of gravity, logic, or medicine. It is the phone call that arrives three minutes before the point of no return. It is the sky clearing for exactly the seven seconds you need to see the face of someone you thought you'd lost forever. something miraculous
But here is the secret about something miraculous: it rarely arrives with trumpets or burning bushes. More often, it arrives in disguise. Because the moment you decide that something miraculous