Everything Is a Miracle
We are taught to suspend awe, but life is better when we do the opposite.
Be on time. Stay on schedule. Answer emails promptly. When it gets dark, turn on the lights and keep working.
It’s ridiculously easy to go through an entire day—or week—without paying any meaningful attention to the natural world. To maximize our productivity, we have invented all sorts of tools that let us keep working nearly 24/7. But many of these tools conspire to obscure the miracles that happen all around us.
Look at this simple image of an aspen tree. Merely by observing it closely, you could learn a great deal about the physical and biological world. But do many of us do this? Not really.
Moving through the world with a sense of wonder encourages us to be curious, and curiosity opens our minds to learning. Simply slowing down can often do the same thing.
I’m not going to lie to you. There are numerous times when I have trouble slowing down, and my daily average screen time is 3 hours and 28 minutes.
And yet, I’m still able to have the natural beauty around us literally stop me in my tracks:
So, my message to you isn’t to be perfect. It’s much simpler than that. We are surrounded by miracles. Make the time each week to spot a few of them.
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P.S. I’m the tree with ski poles.
I agree with you, Bruce.
We do not need Guinness World Record Book to find miracles. The extraordinary is happening all the time, and right around us, only if we care to notice them.
The nature is performing much better than the best employee we can ever have.