I was weeding. One sturdy little seedling, perhaps 6 inches tall, stood erect as a telephone pole, daring me to pull it up. I tugged and yanked. Out it came - with a pecan at its root! Left alone, that little soldier, in a few years, would have become a great pecan tree, sheltering birds and insects and providing food for squirrels. A miracle in the making - just needing a few years to present itself as a for-real, authentic, bona-fide miracle!
Does a "miracle in the making" still qualify as a miracle? If a giant tree had grown up overnight, we would have taken pictures, called journalists - announcing the amazing news that a great pecan tree had sprouted and reached mature growth in just a few hours! It would be like seeing a time-released photo show on the Nature channel. Growing and leafing out and producing pecans before our very eyes.
It would be a miracle!
Does that mean the only difference between miracles and just "normal" nature is time? Is that the only way to distinguish? Just time elapsing?
I don't know about you, but I think it is all a miracle! Everything around us,
every moment of our day......just one miracle after another.....
Here dies another day
During which I have had eyes, ears, hands,
And the great world around me;
And with tomorrow begins another,
Why am I allowed two?
- G. K. Chesterton
