Positive Pensées Kathy King

On a particularly sunny day we were hiking. All of the sudden a very quick storm came upon us. We were drenched from head to toe. This was one of our Hundred Million Miracles that day. The verdant green color after the drenching storm.

The Gift of a Hundred Million Miracles

“A Hundred Million Miracles are Happening Every Day”

Flower Drum Song

https://rodgersandhammerstein.com/flower-drum-song-synopsis/

You woke up this morning.  What a miracle.

The air continued to flow, the rivers kept their current, and the sun shone high in the sky. 

The birds sang their morning song, glorious and filled with tweets.

The flowers opened, the trees swayed gently in the breeze.  

All of these occurrences are part of the miracle of life. 

Yet we forget in the hustle and bustle of everyday life. 

What are the hundred million miracles in your life?

Could it be the gift of sustenance that is on your table each day?

Could it be that you have some friends and family who contribute to the miracle of your life?

A hundred million miracles, if you were asked to name just one, could you look up from the murkiness of life and glean some miracles?

Try to find some wonder in your life. 

I promise you, the practice will be well worth the fight. 

Find the Hundred Million Miracles in your life.  

The river flows, the sun comes up. 

The river flows, the sun comes up.  The wind blows, the moon rises.  The stars come out.  All miracles. Each day is filled with them.  I think that as humans, we become unaware of just how spectacular these hundred million miracles happen each and every day.  This song is from the musical Flower Drum Song, a musical that was written in 1957 by the renowned musical composers, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein.  Our culture has lost the beautiful art of the musical for songs about well, less than wholesome subjects.  I have come to the belief that in all our modern trappings, we have truly lost the ability to find a hundred million miracles, or one miracle if I were to be honest. 

https://rodgersandhammerstein.com/

In the song, if you cannot find a miracle you are “not one who can hear or see what is around you.” The child decides to walk, the birds lay their eggs, and the life cycle repeats itself everyday.  Such simple yet profound activities to ponder.  The soprano (high singer) learns to sing a song. The vegetables grow.  All the themes of this song.  Today I was reading about Corrie ten Boom, she was a woman whose family helped hide Jewish people during World War II.  Her family was prominent clock makers in Haarlem, Netherlands.  Corrie herself was the first woman clock worker in the Netherlands. 

https://www.biography.com/activists/corrie-ten-boom

Corrie’s family took a risk in helping others

Her family, though not Jewish believed that all of God’s people are worthy and should have a place of respite.  They started with one family and eventually helped hundreds of people.  Sadly, they were turned into the Gestapo and taken to concentration camps. Corrie and her sister were sent to Ravensbrueck Women’s Labor Camp in Germany.  This camp was a brutal bastion of death and suffering.  Corrie lost her sister and her father while in the concentration camp.  When I read her book, “The Hiding Place” she spoke about being in isolation at the camp, and all of the atrocities that were committed towards the women in the camp.  She was indeed in the depths of despair.  Even in that situation she tried to find the little miracles in her life. 

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/christiancrier/2014/09/01/top-7-bible-verses-on-thankfulness/

Corrie found some gratitude in the darkest situation

Before her sister died, she encouraged Corrie to find something to have gratitude for in their dire circumstances. While they were in the crowded room Corrie’s sister chose the fleas.  When the fleas were mentioned, Corrie said to her sister (paraphrase) “Who is thankful for fleas!?”  Her sister Betsie reminded her that even creatures she has no use for, God created and therefore they should give thanks.  When reading this passage, I thought in the face of certain death, they found a place of gratefulness.  Most of us have never even encountered situations as dire as these.  Therefore, one can conclude that we have much, much more miracles to account for in our life.  After reading the book by Corrie Ten Boom, I was reduced to tears.  This woman lost her whole family (her 84 year old father as well) and yet she maintained an attitude of gratitude. 

https://www.calm.com/blog/attitude-of-gratitude

Corrie spent the rest of her life finding her hundred million miracles

Corrie went on to serve the rest of her life in the Christian service.  She died on her birthday at the age of 91.  In the Jewish faith, if you die on your birthday you are truly blessed of God.  I am not sure if that is the case, but Corrie was a remarkable person.  One of her many wise sayings was: “Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”.  One Hundred Million Miracles are indeed Happening Everyday.  

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