Have you ever tried to take a picture of a TV or of an aquatic animal in an aquarium? This glare is exactly what you’d expect.

Why is it so hard to marvel in what the human body can do?

Sure it might be from a movie but “Life finds a way” is such an important idea. I wish people would talk on the Today show for 6 minutes about that.

Chelsea had been born five weeks prematurely with developmental disabilities and had battled serious health problems all her life. She is particularly susceptible to the types of pneumonia infections that had taken her to death’s door.

So, these people believe that God let her (or, caused her) for his Great Unfathomable Purposes be born prematurely, have developmental disabilities, & battle health problems all of her 14 yrs so far. But then it’s a “miracle” when she pulls through a latest & worst-so-far of her recurrent bouts with pneumonia. (While on oxygen, a ventilator, and presumably high-potency antibiotics – to combat those evolving bacterial pathogens.)

Then, from the commentary, there’s this unbelievable gem:

Cook was joined by Rabbi Irwin Kula, who looked at angels as more of a metaphor for the unexplained wonders that life brings. “Albert Einstein said there are two ways to look at the world: as if everything is a miracle or nothing is a miracle,” he said.

Did you just hear Einstein turn in his grave? This is not what he meant by “miracle” – he was talking about the entire frigging universe & the beauty of its physics.

“The hospital security personnel continued to watch the image on the security monitor but no one went to the camera’s location to investigate it. Over the course of two hours the angel seemed to miraculously slide down the wall onto the floor, and then to slide across the floor in a miraculously un-angel like way, distorting into what looked kinda like two hot dogs and a lopsided square thing. Then the weather got cloudy outside, and miraculously, just at that moment, the hot-dog-lopsided-square-thing/angel disappeared.”

It’s real convenient for them to just forget all the circumstances where a God could intervene and prevent death and destruction and just focus on the relatively few random times when someone’s luck saved them.

Were the people that didn’t receive the miracle not pious or religious enough or were they just victims of some cosmic roulette wheel while the saved one had the ball fall in their slot?

Yeah, they fall back on the mantra that we’re just too stupid to understand the ways of God. I’m going to try that the next time I get caught for speeding. “Officer, you’re just not worthy of understanding why I had to speed. Bless you anyway.”

*forehead smack*

*facepalm*