Miracles - Perception vs Reality

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Miracles – Perception vs Reality

The Christian Resurrection Miracle, The Jewish Hanukah Miracle…  and many more.  Did they happen?  Are they teaching stories?  In truth, I don’t know.  I wasn’t there.  Because I don’t know, does it make them any less real?  Are they any less a miracle?

When something feels like a miracle to one person and someone else can give a scientific explanation as to how and why it happened, does it make it less than a miracle to the first person? 

Is a miracle limited to something that we call “an act of God?”  or a philosophical view that a miracle is an event with natural causes we do not YET understand? 

WHAT IF it feels like a miracle because I don’t understand it? Or I can basically understand it – yet it is far beyond any probability in MY mind, that it falls in the realm of “miracle” to me. It can flow into the realm of just because I don’t know the answer does it mean it is not True?

This make me think of:

The creation of life, a body formed and birthed - WOW!!!

The seed of an oak tree, starts as a flower, pollinated, forming an acorn, that contains the information of a whole oak tree – WOW!

A starfish losing an arm and regrowing it -  or regrowing a whole starfish from that arm – WOW!

A heart emotionally smashed, healing and opening to love again - WOW!

What constitutes a miracle? 

Does it have to be BIG and inexplicable to be a miracle? Is one person’s feeling of a miracle any more valid or important than another person’s feeling of it being a miracle? And are miracles everywhere if we just open ourselves to seeing them?