Expect Miracles

Expect miracles & acknowledge that they are happening.

We create and expand our capacity to receive miracles. Bigger miracles! Or unexpected miracles!

Albert Einstein 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.”

He chose the latter.

Every day we wake is a miracle.

Look around you today. What do you see? Hear? Feel? Experience?

The sun rises each day. Even on the days when there is a cloud covered sky, the sun still rises. What a miracle!

You are alive. The breath you breathe that sustains you is a miracle. The ability for your heart, lungs, and brain to keep you alive day after day is miraculous. You take oxygen from the environment, circulate it through your body, and expel what’s not needed to nourish other plants and animals.

Expect miracles!

We’ve been taught to expect the worst.

Expect the worst and you’ll never be disappointed. Perhaps you might be pleasantly surprised.

We can choose, however, to expect the best. In the Mindset blog I wrote earlier this year, I mentioned the importance of having a gratitude practice and how it shapes the way we think and view the world.

Similarly, when we expect miracles, we witness them.

They are happening all around us already.

When we focus on miracles, we give ourselves permission to see them and access to experience them.

When we expect miracles, we are priming ourselves for them to happen. We experience those bigger and unexpected miracles.

What is bigger or more unexpected than the sun rising? Or waking up in the morning? Perhaps good news from a stranger or an unexpected encounter.

An example from Jesus’s life and ministry is his miraculous forgiveness of sin and healing. In Mark chapter 2, Jesus forgives and heals a paralyzed man whose friends bring him to Jesus by lowering him down into a crowded room from through the roof:

• Jesus declares his sins to be forgiven.

  • This alone is a miracle!

  • Jesus has the power to forgive people’s sins. Not just anyone but even us.

• When He is challenged by the scribes in the crowd, Jesus heals the man by telling him to pick up his mat and walk.

  • Jesus has already forgiven his sins, but takes it a step further and heals his paralysis so that the man walks out of the room.

  • What a gift! What a miraculous deed!

I challenge you then to let go of the fear, the insecurity, the doubt keeping you from expecting the worst or being indifferent to what to expect. You are worthy of miracles.

Expect miracles. Then watch them happen in your life and in those lives around you.

When you focus on the miracles around you, you give God and/or the Universe permission to surprise you in wonderful ways.

xo,

Megan C