I sat down for a coffee yesterday. My conversation with a writer, director, and businessman will always be remembered by a comment he made in passing. “Every day comes with a miracle. I may not see it. I may not feel it. Yet, it is here. I am always on the outlook for it.”
We sat on the porch of a winery in Temecula, enjoying the midday sun, watching people around us, and talking about life, I realized my miracle was unfolding. I cannot say that there was single moment that stands out. Even as I turn right instead of left to go home, I knew God was present. I took the off-road way home, off the Touareg’s GPS map, heading where I sensed the Spirit asking me to go.
The road wandered NNE and North from Temecula. It was generally the way, however there were no assurances. I did not have a map. It was a series of steps into and through the unknown. An hour later, faster than the traditional well-planned and guided GPS route, I was in the driveway.
Something magical happens when your day’s miracle touches and transforms. Your life will have a miracle today. You may not see it. You may not feel it. Yet, it will happen. One of the important things you can do for yourself is to be on watch for it.
Along the way, as our conversation yesterday went on to remind me, depression will hit the strongest. There will be pain, anguish, and rejection. When faced with the same, wise men before me reminded me that “proclaiming the Message in Derbe and establishing a strong core of disciples, they retraced their steps to Lystra, then Iconium, and then Antioch, putting muscle and sinew in the lives of the disciples, urging them to stick with what they had begun to believe and not quit, making it clear to them that it wouldn't be easy: ‘Anyone signing up for the kingdom of God has to go through plenty of hard times.’” (Acts 14.21, 22)
There will be miracles.
