Miracles You May Have Difficulty Believing

I want to share some miraculous things that happened to me recently. You're going to find these hard to believe, but I assure you, they are all true. Truth is, indeed, stranger than fiction.

It began in the morning as I walked through the parking lot between the gym where I parked my car and the Starbucks on the other side of the mall. As I stepped from between a row of cars, I glanced to my right and saw a car approaching about 30 feet away. I was already in the lane of traffic and the car was coming towards me. Instantly, the driver of the car stopped, waved for me to go ahead and smiled.

To my amazement, I made it to Starbucks and back to my car without being run over.

Okay. I know you're skeptical that anything that miraculous could possibly happen. But it gets even stranger.

As I was driving home, I came to a 4-way stop at the exact moment as three cars at the other three corners. No one moved because we were all signaling for one of the other drivers to go first. It took about 10 seconds for it all to get worked out. As hard as it may be for you to believe, all four of us made it through the intersection unscathed. I sipped my coffee and thanked my lucky stars. Whew! That was close.

Still later that day, I was walking my dog through a forest near my house. Many of my neighbors are hunters and have rifles and shotguns and handguns. I was wary, of course, yet not one of my neighbors came out of his house and used my dog and me for target practice. 

And if that isn't miraculous enough, that night, my wife and I went to see a movie, enjoyed it tremendously and returned home. No one yelled fire in the crowded theater or pulled out a gun and started shooting.

I'm afraid I may make you doubt my honesty if I tell you that events later in the week were just as stunning: The flight I took where not one fist fight broke out over space in the overhead bin; the fact that my car had not been stolen from the airport parking lot; the drive home where everyone, myself included, stopped when the lights turned red.

Okay. What's the point?

Consider this: The news is full of stories about conflict and political polarization. What rarely makes the news is how civil we actually are to each other and how well we get along and live by the rules even though most of the rules we live by aren't written down.

Of course there are exceptions, but they are called exceptions because they are exceptional

It's amazing how many miracles we pass by every day without even noticing.

I hope every day is as amazing for you as my days have been for me when I took the time to focus on the truly miraculous.