this miraculous life

life is full of miracles. everyday. all around.

they are easy to miss for sure. with all the noise and distraction. we are seduced into missing the wonder of this life. it is so easy to only see with limited perception, through the lens of fear and angst and woundedness.

i feel the weight of these words, this truth as they travel from my heart into the world, now. what a world in which we live! what a beautiful and suffering world.

precisely why it matters to be present to miracles. to see not only with our physical eyes but eyes of the heart. to keep our hearts open in the midst of heartbreak.

when our hearts remain open, our connection to Life and the Divine is sustained and strengthened…

…and bam! miracles!

miracles change everything.

there are little ones: like this morning, the inspiration to make scrambled eggs for my father. the shift between us…a miracle. who knew scrambled eggs could be miraculous?!

and there are big ones.

like the one i’ve experienced in the passing of my mama.

it was/is a biggy. huge. life-altering for me and mine.

it is not right to try to capture it or describe it or pin it down.

the wonder of it all is too much. it deserves reverence.

nonetheless, it was/is a doozy.

and maybe there is no distinction. maybe miracles are miracles no matter. maybe scrambling eggs is no little thing.

miracles reform, reorder, restore, resource us. they bring us to our knees in praise and humility and raise us up with strength and courage.

gradually, with enough evidence, we come to know that life itself is a miracle.

life itself is a miracle.

truly, truly.

how amazing! to live knowing this.

because we are alive, we are experiencing miracles, participating in miracles, are miracles!

truly, truly.

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yesterday, mama’s piano arrived home. she gifted it to meg about a year ago. she passed it down. and now, it is meg’s.

the music is now playing us and filling this home in new and wondrous ways as love harmonizes us, expands us, roots us, raises us, moves us…all a miracle!

see, with mama’s ultimate crossing over, we all crossed over. from one life into another…a miracle!

in death, a rebirth…a miracle!

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let us open our hearts to the miracle of this life, to the love that sustains us and sings us into being and to the essential role we play in that miracle.

life is a miracle.

we are miracles, love.

you are a miracle.

truly, truly.