Miracles & Truths

Miracle - God Himself descends from On High, trailing Clouds of Glory, to show me where my lost keys are.



Lesser Miracle - Aaron remembers seeing them and Scott drives to their last known location and is able to locate them in a darkened theater.



Dubious Miracle - I manage not to lose them in the first place.

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Miracle - A man on heroin has a vision, wherein an angel instructs him not to get into a particular vehicle. Moments later, the vehicle - whose driver is also high - loses a brief but nasty battle with a tractor trailer. The man's life is spared and he quits cold turkey.



Lesser Miracle - A woman losing a twenty year battle with alcoholism is convinced by a church-going neighbor to enter yet another program. This one works.



Dubious Miracle - A fatherless youth raised in a poverty-stricken neighborhood is able to complete high school and college without ever wrestling with an addiction.

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From a certain perspective every good thing is a miracle, divinely wrought in our lives through means both holy and mundane

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Divine Revelation - God Himself descends from On High, trailing Clouds of Glory, to tell me which of several jobs I should take.



Lesser Revelation - An offhand comment by a friend inspires me to scan one more time over the want-ads, where I notice for the first time the Perfect Job. I fly through the interview and begin my lifelong career as an obscenely over-paid brownie taster.



Dubios Revelation - My friend and I pour over the paper together, and she points out a job to me that I had missed.

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From a certain perspective, are all truths "revealed truths," shown to us at the proper time through means both holy and mundane?