It ‘s not true that miracles don’t happen. They happen everyday all around us, we’re just too busy doing something else to notice them. We have our days mapped out and brush right by the miraculous at every step. We don’t notice the spider spinning its web, a fiery sunrise, or the silence of a star-filled sky. We are too busy with deadlines and projections, with the daily grind, and all the shoulds and oughts that keep us weighed down and utterly distracted from the miraculous of the everyday.
Miracles ask for impossibility and impossibility asks us to be light enough to see a different level of life. When we trim back some of the incessant doing we begin to see more clearly what’s going on all around us and this is miraculous in and of itself. Then we begin to see strange synchronicities and impossibility begins to enter into deeper layers of our lives creating connections and continuity.
What dream has been hovering but never landed? Taking an art class, starting your own business, or moving to another country. Things can seem big and out of reach but it isn’t the desire that’s outlandish, it’s our preconceptions and small thinking that halts miraculous happenings. We are called to make room for impossibility, it comes in the form of a bigger vision, of being open to a more expansive dream. When we get out of our own way we step right into miracles.
It only takes beginning. We look more closely, pay more attention, that’s how we start to wake up to what’s really going on around us and how we feel about it. Then we get to decide what we want to do about it. We rub the sleep of what the world expects out of our eyes and open to what sets us on fire. Then we can see ourselves differently and shift out of limitation, perhaps with more compassion for our innermost truth.
When we make room for the impossible our lives shift into another gear. Who we are underneath all we do gets a chance to surface and be seen. This opens the door to joy and the simple delights of the everyday. That’s how we begin to see the miraculous beauty already existing around us.
Look deeper inside, the impossible is already taking place.
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