Ordinary Miracles

Last weekend we watched the newly released video version of Charlotte's Web and at the end there was a video by Sarah McLachlan entitled Ordinary Miracle. The lyrics are as follows:

It’s not that unusual
when everything is beautiful
It’s just another ordinary miracle today

The sky knows when it’s time to snow
Don’t need to teach a seed to grow
It’s just another ordinary miracle today

Life is like a gift they say,
wrapped up for you everyday
Open up and find a way
to give some of your own

Isn’t it remarkable
like every time a raindrop falls
It’s just another ordinary miracle today

Birds and winter have their fling
but always make it home by spring
It’s just another ordinary miracle today

When you wake up every day
please don’t throw your dreams away
Hold them close to your heart
cause we are all a part of the ordinary miracle
Ordinary miracle, do you wanna see a miracle?

It seems so exceptional
that things just work out after all
It’s just another ordinary miracle today

The sun comes up and shines so bright
and disappears again at night
It’s just another ordinary miracle today

It’s just another ordinary miracle today

It seems that we so often ask God for miracles, but don't recognize that we are surrounded by them each and every day. So much of what we take for granted is indeed miraculous in itself. Surely you've had the experience of finding a newly spun spider's web, glistening with dew in the early morning sun and wondered at the magnificent perfection with which it was constructed. Or perhaps you've watched a colorful swallowtail butterfly float through your garden, stopping to drink the nectar from each of the brightly colored flowers.

There are so many amazing miracles around us each and every day. You need look no further than your own yard. If you search for proof that God lives, open your eyes. The proof of his existence is a evident as the sunrise. This beautiful world of ours cannot be explained so simply as scientists and mathematicians would have us believe. There surely is a chemical and mathematical explanation for everything that occurs in our universe. Scientists can answer the where, what, when, and how. But the why remains a mystery. Things are because they are....simply. And then there is the beauty of it all.....and that is where God lives....in the ordinary miracle.