September 24, 2004

The Miracles around us

Have you recently sat in the rain and looked up at the lightning playing across the sky? Or, sat on the grass on an early morning, feeling the freshness and the coolness of the grass under you and the warmth of the sun on your face while the birds sang and the fragrance of flowers wafted all around you? I don’t know about you, but I seem to be doing less and less of this kind of thing which actually makes us realize how good life is and all the little miracles that surround us … and this is not a good thing.

It started raining heavily in the morning today just as I got up. I washed, prayed and then sat on my couch for a little while, staring out the window at the rain falling down and the lightning streaking across the sky. I really wanted to go out and just sit in the rain and let it splash all over me like I used to do when I was a child. Why is it that as we get older, we get more and more conservative and so …. dull? :p Why is it that we start thinking about what other people will think/say, whether we’d get sick and so on, instead of just going out and doing something which is fun? I don’t know. But I do know that I didn’t go out and just romp around in the rain. But I did sit there and look at the rain and think about all these things 🙂

It was then that I had the thought that the rain falling outside, the sunshine on our face, all these things are little miracles of God. When something big happens, like a huge storm coming up (I was thinking of "The Day After Tomorrow" at this point but that’s a different discussion :p), we start thinking of God and sometimes even say that it’s an "act of God". But we always disregard the little miracles which are all around us, I guess because we’ve gotten so used to them and they have lost their miraculousness. This is probably why I love a child’s viewpoint of the world much better than I love an adult’s – because children have still not become so blasé about all the little wonders that are all around us and they still look out at the world with innocent eyes. But the truth of the matter is that there is beauty and wonder to be seen, enjoyed and marvelled at, all around us … if we’d just take the time from our daily grind to notice these things. So just take a minute off your day to smell the roses, to stare out your window at the greenery of the trees or how blue the sky is and realize that the world might not be as dreary as it sometimes might seem 🙂

Tags: Hollywood, Movies, Reflections
Posted by Fahim at 8:52 am   Comments (5)

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Laurie Ashton-Farook 12 October 2004 at 8:27 pm

Come out and play with me, honey. I’m the one jumping in the mud puddle . . .

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Tyran 25 September 2004 at 8:22 pm

Like oranges. Why do oranges taste like oranges; afterall, taste isn’t vital to life (some might argue to guard against poison but if you’ve tasted it, it may well be too late to guard against) so why bother, when creating a world, to deal with tastes and smells? What about flowers? Why waste time creating flowers that don’t result in edible food? To me, they are both tangible proof that someone loves us very much and wanted this home of ours to be full of wonders and marvels. Unfortunately, like you say, our adult lives seem to bury our ability to recognize or even enjoy such things. Is it no wonder then that Christ said, “Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.” Mark 10

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Nigel 25 September 2004 at 8:24 pm

…see eternity in a grain of sand… 🙂

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Coca Bogdan - High IQ Man 29 November 2004 at 9:28 pm

I also saw the “The dat after tomorw” grate movie

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Molly Ricland 31 May 2005 at 4:18 am

who makes a miracle. have you ever wondered about the strands of your hair and how they got their? have you ever wondered what makes someone smile or what makes them frown?

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