Let's face it. We humans are a bunch of whiners. We complain and whine at just about everything under the sun. Coffee too cold, salaries too low, bosses too hard, subordinates too slow etc etc. Ever heard of the classic "Life is hard" quote? Well, it goes on to say you gotta work your butt off to make it in this world. Stuff like that. Uncommon? No. We're all guilty of it. I am too, to be completely honest.
Awhile back I posted something about The Miracle of the Moment. This is something similar. Little miracles, the ones we miss almost everytime. The small ordinary day to day miracles that take place in our lives. The tiny, 'commonplace' ones that change our world and change our lives without us even knowing.
Have you ever considered the sunrise and the sunset? Little miracles. Beautiful. Expressions of a Creator's creativity.
Have you thought about the hundreds of things that happen at the same time when you do something as simple as breathe? Oxygenation of the blood and all. The preciseness of our human anatomy.
Have you ever marvelled at the fierce beauty of a storm or how a sky can turn red with an impending storm?
Or when you held a newborn baby in your arms? The miracle of life. To see this tiny little wonder.
Have you considered that if we were 1 meter closer to the sun, we'd be done in very well, or in other words, well-done? Or if we were 1 meter further from the sun, we'd all resemble interestingly shaped ice stalagmites?
Have you ever been on a beach at night and taken the time to watch the stars and listened to the waves lap against the shore?
Or thought about one of the greatest miracles of all; love? How people would willingly lay down their lives for their loved ones, and some even for strangers? Why? Because love is powerful.
Life is short. Yet we insist on rushing through it with our noses buried in what we do. And that's how we miss these little miracles. Some people don't believe in miracles. I do. They take place all around us everyday. Will we miss them today?
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Indeed we rush through this life way too quickly, way too hurriedly and way too furiously. every little thing seems to bug us. but for every little miracle, we seem to pass by without a second glance.
life is so much more beautiful to be able to see these little miracles because the little things that bugs us seems so insignificant.
how many of us really enjoy the traffic jam jz watching the sunset or sunrise and jz reminiscing of the past. silly thing to do, we all jz wanna get home. but hey, its not like we had a choice to be stuck there. so why not? :)
love is one of the most amazing things this life can offer. as much as love wont feed us but deep down inside we all yearn to be loved. that's the simplest and tiniest but yet, the greatest miracle anyone can every hv or experience. maybe from our family, or a friend, even maybe a stranger. its an amazing miracle to have someone love you, but its an even greater miracle to find the heart to love someone else. the intrinsic rewards are priceless and money can never come close to buying it.
life is a miracle in itself. and its built up of many tiny miracles in it. my life is one, yours and everyone else's one is too. i can testify to that.
a beautiful post :) simply cz its so simple yet so true.
Mel
I agree very much to that :)
Like that of traffic jams. Its true. Really, why get so worked up when you can really have take those times without feeling guilty (if one does) and just slow down and look around. Catch a rainbow or a sunset or sunrise. Come to think of it, being stuck in heavy traffic could even be a time of rest!
Yeaps, simple yet it sometimes takes one to put it in words for others to realise or even come back to it. ^^
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