Small blessings and significant miracles happen every day in your life whether or not you are conscious of them and whether or not you consider them to be ordinary events or blessings. You awoke to behold a new day. Perhaps you hadn’t noticed that the dogwood broke into flower or that the mourning doves started a new family in their nest under the porch eaves. Maybe the child in your neighbor’s yard took his first steps out of his mother’s arms, or the old woman across the street buried her nose in a newly bloomed rose. Did you see those events as miraculous or ordinary? Do you see that, following your awakening, there is the promise in each moment of your day to do something awesome, to make a difference in your life or in the lives of others, to effect a change in the world—or just your world. Each of the aforementioned events is nothing short of miraculous. To view them through that lens, you may have to shift your perception. A Course in Miracles states, “Miracles should inspire gratitude, not awe. You should thank God for what you really are. The children of God are holy and the miracle honors their holiness, which can be hidden but never lost.” To witness or experience miracles in your life, be willing to accept or initiate the following:
• Understand you are a child of God and you were created in the likeness of God. Only your sense of duality creates the sense of separateness. The divine light shines within you.
• Open your heart and your mind, and believe that everyday miracles of seemingly ordinary events really do happen.
• Imagine that all that you desire and seek for your everyday life concerns is already here in the present moment.
• Know that you are worthy and deserving of receiving miracles, no matter how mundane you think your desire or need is.
• Visualize or imagine the miracles you desire.
• Believe and have faith in yourself, God, and the angels.
• Expect and allow the miracles to appear.
The next time you awaken, consider saying a prayer of thanks for the gift of a new day or another chance to live differently, seeing the world anew through the lens of miracles and blessings.