Tag: miracles
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March 29, 2022
A few summers ago, I overheard a short exchange between a child and a parent. The two of them were walking down the street when the kid stopped and bent over, inspecting something on the sidewalk. The father kept walking, and the kid called out to him, “Wait! This is important.” What was it that…
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January 9, 2020
I was standing in a coffee shop in New Orleans and looked over to see a plastic water pitcher suddenly turned into a pillar of light, glowing as if it had some message to impart. Which, I suppose, it did: miracles everywhere, beauty everywhere. And this: you, too, can become a container of light. Reactions:…
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June 4, 2015
There’s an old light fixture attached to the back of my house, way up high, underneath the eaves, and every spring that I’ve lived here, a robin has built a nest on top of the fixture, and every year I feel lucky that it is happening again. In the morning, I go outside and look…
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January 8, 2013
The Christmas tree came down on Saturday. I miss it. I miss the light of it and the smell of it and the improbability of it (a tree! In the house!). I miss how when I came around the corner and caught sight of it, I felt like a kid again, convinced of miracles. I…
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September 22, 2011
I get a small rainbow through my dining room window at around 11 am this time of year. Every time the rainbow appears, I think of Mr. Theiler, my seventh grade science teacher, who taught us about the colors of the rainbow. Roy G. Biv. Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet. It is always…