So how is your day going? I speak of it often about our prayer chaplains. She added at the end of all her prayers she prayed with congregants three little words. "And all is well."
This becomes the mantra around everything that is happening - and all is well. It is a miracle that we live on a planet with oxygen and nitrogen in the right ratio to provide us with air. In addition, there is the proper temperature (though that is changing) so we can live and grow crops to eat. Finally we have progressed far along enough that we don't spend our nights worrying and shaking about the multitudes of predators that would consider us a fine and tasty meal. This is all a miracle.
Then you start adding in the miracles of life. Do realize that the Allies were in real trouble during the war because of the shortage of rubber which impacted everything? Then a research scientist discovered synthetic rubber and we were saved.
It is the same miracle as the age of polio. It was an earlier type of CoVid quarantine. Movie houses were closed and public events were stopped because anybody could catch it. Then along came Jonas Salk and a cure was found. Not only that but he donated the formula so everyone could have it and all would be saved.
My experience around polio was very personal. I was named after my cousin Dave Madden. During the polio scare, Dave came down with a very serious case of polio and ended up in St. Mary's Hospital in Rochester, Minnesota (part of the Mayo Clinic campus.). He was in an iron lung for some 16 years and passed away in 1964.
He was known for his approach to life including running a number of businesses from his hopsital room. Many celebrities who were in the hospital would visit him. They ranged from Danny Kaye to President Eisenhower. I was blessed between the ages of 10 and 12 to visit and spend some time with him. One of my visits included the Minnesota Twins baseball team who had come to see him. This is one of the miracles.
The Mayo Clinic as a special feature of the Rochester Heritage Days festival produced a film called "A Cheerful Heart: The Dave Madden Story." I revisited information about him and realize many of my thoughts about lifes are his. He said, "Each morning I wake up and see the sun shine into my room and I wonder what spirit will bring into my life today; it will be spectacular!"
There is a beautiful song written by Peter Mayer called "Everything is Holy Now." I was blessed with my band to sing this during some Sunday church services. One of the verses states, "When I was in Sunday school, we would learn about the time Moses split the sea in two, Jesus made the water wine. And I remember feeling sad that miracles don't happen still But now I can't keep track Cause everything's a miracle."
Realize as you read this blog that during the rest of your day you will be surrounded by the noise of 'miracle occurences." Look hard; here comes another miracle!
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