DO YOU BELIEVE IN MIRACLES -------OR THE IMPROBABLITY PRINCIPLE?

A miracle is "an object of wonder, a welcome. surprising, extraordinary event
that can't be explained by science and is thought to have come from divine intervention".

Mostly, I don't care where a miracle comes from but I've had a few, seen a few. My response is to want to give thanks to a Higher Power/God that is beyond knowing so I must believe in this intervening awesome good.

I remember an affirmation that took me through a painful divorce and rupture of my family. "I expect a miracle today."  I don't know where the phrase came from but I hung on to it like a kid to candy. It kept me hopeful and looking for the miracle of the day. And they came--ten dollars in the mail right when I'd run out of money for the week, an invitation to a job interview without having ever applied for the job.  And later in life, living through a heart attack because I was in the right place at the right time. 

But my eye was caught by the title of this book.
I share it with you for the honesty of it, I think.
Maybe not every miracle is a miracle.
Thank goodness for those that are.

The Improbability Principle--why coincidence, miracles and rare events happen every day--By David J. Hand 

l. Law of Inevitability --something must happen

2. Law of Truly Large Numbers--given enough opportunities, unlikely things will happen

3. Law of Selection--we paint targets after the arrows have hit

4. Law of Near Enough--things that are sufficiently similar are treated as if they are identical

Food for thought.