{"id":90688,"date":"2025-12-11T11:04:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T16:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritualsparks.beehiiv.com\/p\/spiritual-sparks-do-miracles-still-happen"},"modified":"2025-12-11T11:04:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T16:04:05","slug":"spiritual-sparks-do-miracles-still-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/spiritual-sparks-do-miracles-still-happen\/","title":{"rendered":"Spiritual Sparks: Do Miracles Still Happen?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n    <div class='beehiiv'><style>\n  .bh__table, .bh__table_header, .bh__table_cell { border: 1px solid #C0C0C0; }\n  .bh__table_cell { padding: 5px; background-color: #FFFFFF; }\n  .bh__table_cell p { color: #2D2D2D; font-family: 'Helvetica',Arial,sans-serif !important; overflow-wrap: break-word; }\n  .bh__table_header { padding: 5px; background-color:#F1F1F1; }\n  .bh__table_header p { color: #2A2A2A; font-family:'Trebuchet MS','Lucida Grande',Tahoma,sans-serif !important; overflow-wrap: break-word; }\n<\/style><div class='beehiiv__body'><p class=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align:left;\">The world is a mask hiding a deeper reality. Removing the mask reveals miracles<b>\u00a0<\/b>-- and awakens exhilaration and wonder.<\/p><p class=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align:left;\">Doctor Bloom was famous for \u201cmiraculous\u201d cures. One day a little old woman, bent fully in half, shuffled into his office. Thirty minutes later she walked out completely erect. A stunned woman in the waiting room whispered, \u201cIt\u2019s a miracle! What did he do?\u201d \u201c<b>Miracle<\/b>, shmiracle,\u201d the old lady said. \u201cHe gave me a longer cane.\u201d<\/p><p class=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align:left;\">Many people think a miracle must break the laws of nature.\u00a0 But Dr. Bloom&#39;s playful story reminds us that what we call a miracle depends less on what happened and more on how we look at it.<\/p><p class=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align:left;\">Today we\u2019ll explore what <b>miracles <\/b>truly are, where they can be seen, and how we can train ourselves to notice them.<\/p><p class=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align:left;\">\u2728<b>3 Ideas<\/b><\/p><ol start=\"1\"><li><p class=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align:left;\"><b>What is a Miracle? <\/b><\/p><\/li><\/ol><p class=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align:left;\">People assume a miracle must be supernatural, but classic wisdom sees it differently. A miracle is anything to inspire amazement, not necessarily by suspending nature\u2019s laws.<\/p><p class=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align:left;\"><i>Miracle<\/i> comes from the Latin <i>mirare<\/i> -- \u201cto look at\u201d -- meaning it requires attention.<\/p><p class=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align:left;\"><b>Wonder is the essence; perception is the key that awakens awareness.<\/b> The natural world\u2019s grandeur can astonish the soul. When we train our eyes to notice, we discover that miracles never disappeared -- we simply stopped seeing. <\/p><ol start=\"2\"><li><p class=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align:left;\"><b>Hidden Miracles -- Nature as the Spiritual Mask<\/b><\/p><\/li><\/ol><p class=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align:left;\">The world runs on fixed laws, but this predictability is a spiritual mask concealing deeper reality. The miraculous hides behind nature, inviting us to peer beneath the surface. <\/p><p class=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align:left;\"><b>The world is a veil: opaque at first glance, yet transparent when viewed with awe<\/b>. <\/p><p class=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align:left;\">Consider the hidden miracles within you: 60,000 miles of blood vessels, eyes that see seven million colors. These marvels are always here, waiting to be noticed. When we stop calling a sunrise or a heartbeat \u201cnormal\u201d, the world becomes breathtaking again.<\/p><ol start=\"3\"><li><p class=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align:left;\"><b>Training the Eyes to See -- Living with a Miracle Mindset <\/b><\/p><\/li><\/ol><p class=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align:left;\">A miracle asks us not just to witness, but to awaken. A spiritual seeker is like a deep-sea diver, searching beneath the surface for hidden treasures.<\/p><p class=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align:left;\"><b>Everything is a miracle -- but let those we\u2019re used to be seen with fresh eyes<\/b>. <\/p><p class=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align:left;\">Classic wisdom asks: Is the growth and birth of a child any less miraculous than the splitting of the Red Sea? Cultivating this miracle mindset -- where nothing remains routine -- is how we step into a spiritually vibrant life. <\/p><p class=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align:left;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(208, 224, 227);\">----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<\/span><\/p><p class=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align:left;\">\ud83d\udcdc<b>2 Quotes<\/b><\/p><p class=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align:left;\">\u201c\u2026 Your wonders and thoughts are for us \u2026 they are too overwhelming to count.\u201d <br>\u2014 <i>Psalm 40:6<\/i><\/p><p class=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align:left;\">\u201cI see trees of green, red roses too. I see them bloom for me and you. And I think to myself, \u2018What a wonderful world.\u2019\u201d<br>\u2014 <i>Louis Armstrong, What a Wonderful World (1967) <\/i><\/p><p class=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align:left;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(208, 224, 227);\">----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<\/span><\/p><p class=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align:left;\">\u2753<b>1 Question<\/b><\/p><p class=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align:left;\">What miracle in your everyday life do you most often overlook? <\/p><p class=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align:left;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(208, 224, 227);\">----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<\/span><\/p><p class=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align:left;\">Why focus on miracles? Because when everything is seen as a miracle, gratitude awakens from every heartbeat, every breath -- and all the day-to-day workings of nature itself. We begin to remember that <b>miracles surround us constantly<\/b>, even if they unfold seventy times a minute. <\/p><p class=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align:left;\">Science seeks the natural within the supernatural; the spiritual seeker learns to see the supernatural shining within the natural.<\/p><p class=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align:left;\">Until next time,<br>May your eyes be opened to the miracles around you. <\/p><p class=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align:left;\"><b>Rabbi Ze&#39;ev Smason<\/b><\/p><p class=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align:left;\">P.S. What moment of everyday wonder has stayed with you -- something that felt like a quiet miracle? I\u2019d be delighted if you would share that moment.<\/p><p class=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align:left;\">P.P.S. 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