Finding the Way: Miracles in Every Day
© 2007 by Jean-Christine

A dear friend once shared an important life lesson with me, a wise and caring woman who'd lived long enough to experience her fair share of important life lessons firsthand. She told me, "Life is all about perspective. Half full or half empty. You choose."

So simple. So significant.

Through the years I've come to recognize the truth of her words. We are all responsible for how we view life's events from the most spectacular, i.e. birth, death, weddings, illness, etc . . . to the most ordinary--like dropping a full pickle jar on the tiled kitchen floor and in an instant making a potentially-dangerous mess that will take an hour to clean, while racing to get children and their lunches to school on time.

The choice of half full or half empty depends a lot on the yardstick we use to measure.

Against a worldly yardstick my staging lung cancer diagnosis could easily have been viewed as a tragedy, an unexpected and unfortunate turn of events and a clear illustration of the saying: Life's tough. Get a helmet . . .

Against a spiritual yardstick that very same diagnosis revealed itself to be a miracle that turned my life upside down, brought some wonderful people into my circle of acquaintances, and sent me on a journey that I'm still on today. I'm finding the way . . . understanding how God works in my life, how prayer is a powerful intercessor, and how miracles can and do happen--not once in a while, but every day.

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