Thursday, December 24, 2009
Miracles
A good friend of mine just had a close brush with death.
He had a heart attack. And his heart stopped beating on the way to the hospital.
The nurse riding in the ambulance defibrillated the heart and normal heartbeat was restored. My friend says that now he believes in miracles!
The whole process got me to look at what I call miracles. And certainly a heart that stops beating...and then starts again is what I would call a miracle!
I was delighted that he was still on the planet. And that miracle gave me a bounce in my step, and I could feel an appreciation in myself for my just being here too, and for a moment, I felt that all was the way it was supposed to be.
So, what is wonderful about a miracle is not only the miracle itself, but the fact that it made me appreciate what I would normally call "the ordinary"...and then I could see the miracle in the ordinary too! In fact everything became a miracle!!
And then I remembered a quote from Albert Einstein. He said:
There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Amen….
©2009 subhan schenker
A good friend of mine just had a close brush with death.
He had a heart attack. And his heart stopped beating on the way to the hospital.
The nurse riding in the ambulance defibrillated the heart and normal heartbeat was restored. My friend says that now he believes in miracles!
The whole process got me to look at what I call miracles. And certainly a heart that stops beating...and then starts again is what I would call a miracle!
I was delighted that he was still on the planet. And that miracle gave me a bounce in my step, and I could feel an appreciation in myself for my just being here too, and for a moment, I felt that all was the way it was supposed to be.
So, what is wonderful about a miracle is not only the miracle itself, but the fact that it made me appreciate what I would normally call "the ordinary"...and then I could see the miracle in the ordinary too! In fact everything became a miracle!!
And then I remembered a quote from Albert Einstein. He said:
There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Amen….
©2009 subhan schenker
# posted by Subhan @ 5:20 PM 
