When I think about
miracles, I have always believed that they happen, but I have never seen any
big, huge, miracles like someone being cured from cancer, or someone’s leg
being healed on the spot. Is my faith too small so I don’t see those things or
do they not happen. I guess the real question is, “Why?” Why have I not been
able to see those things when you hear about people seeing real true miracles.
The thing is that miracles happen all the time; it is just our measure of what
merits a “true” miracle. This past month in Ukraine, there was so many
miracles. Even the fact that we were connected with our amazing contact Tania
was a miracle. We found out that Tania had been praying for months that a team
of Americans would come to help with the English ministry – so we were a
miracle. Although it was last minute and spontaneous, we were a miraculous
answer to prayer. In addition to this, Golgotha (the church where we helped
with a kids camp), was concerned that they wouldn’t have enough people to run
their camp because they needed an American team to play real American
soldiers….we were their miracle. Not only this, during ESL camp our leaders had
told us that if only fifty people came that it would be a huge success. To our
surprise, over one hundred people came to ESL camp. How could this happen,
considering we did not put fliers out until two days before the camp? It was a
miracle. I’m learning that God is in the miracle business, and who is to say
what a “true” miracle is? God works miracles all around us, even though we may
or may not think what we see is merited as a “true miracle.”
