Miracle.

We continue to pursue more and more of what we already have. We keep chasing things that we do not really need. In this engaging activity, we tend to overlook and forget the basic, most valuable blessings that we have been rewarded with. To be alive, to be able to walk, to be able to see is a miracle indeed. That we get up in the mornings and we are not in a hospital or a prison or a refugee camp is something to be celebrated every day. Water running in taps, refrigerators loaded with food and relationships to stabilize our lives are not the things that are to be taken for granted. To be thankful to our Creator for all the blessings that He has showered upon us is a sure means to further increase such blessings in our lives. Life is too valuable to be terminated with one’s own hands. Sorrows are part of life. But troubled times must not be allowed to render our lives worthless in our eyes. How meaningful is this statement by someone, “ I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow. But through it all, I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing”.