Miracles

The past few years, it has been hard for me to get into the Christmas Spirit. For some reason I have had other things on my mind, or maybe I'm just growing up and those silver bells are through tinkling for me. Whatever the reason, this year feels different. My Folks Family has made it easy by inviting me to make gingerbread houses with them, talking about wish lists, playing Christmas music, and all those other holiday traditions that I've fallen away from. So even though I couldn't go with them to chop down a tree on the Arizona strip, my Grandma and I decided to put up our own tree, brought out of storage and pre-lit. As I was fluffing the branches, I started to think about the miracle of Christmas. It is incredibly bizarre, when you think about it... the way God created us, gave us a choice to love Him or not love Him, then solved the problem by sending himself as a human sacrifice to atone for our bad choices, having known since the beginning exactly how it would all play out. Then I started to think about some of the other miracles people believe in. Whether we admit it or not, all religions, all non-religions believe in some kind of miracle. Something that goes against the laws of nature, like the atheists have to believe either in something from nothing, or some sort of eternal matter. Reincarnation, for many religions, or a spiritual realm outside of ours where the soul is destined after the body dies. There is the miracle of logic- the idea that one can know right and wrong through inference. When you take the most common worldviews, and follow them back to the original miracle that is the basis for all other concepts in life, they all turn out to be pretty bizarre. I guess that's what makes it a miracle. Anyways, I'm not here to prove or disprove anyone's journey of faith. All I'm saying is, examine what you've been taught and choose your miracle wisely. That's the beauty of being human: we have the freedom to choose what we believe, and no one can blame their choices on anyone else.