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Good Time for a Miracle!

© Geraldine Wagner

Continuing with the theme of "if you're happy, you'll be good," I'd like to tell you about yet another handout I received during a twelve step women's retreat. (By the way, if you live in the New York State area, the annual Noel Retreat for Recovering Women will be held, as it has been for some forty years, at Christ the King Retreat House, 500 Brookford Road, Syracuse, NY 13224. The phone number is (315) 446-2680. The retreat goes from Friday at 5 p.m. and ends on Sunday at noon. This year's dates are December 3.4.5, 1999, and the retreat presenter will be Rev. Richard Hoar of Buffalo, NY.)

Here's what the handout tells us. "Thee" is "me" in you. We are basically alike, you and I. When I remember this, I can help you take better care of you.

For many of us, the Christmas season is a time of miracles.

If a miracle happened right now in your life, what would it be? Would you go to any length to have it happen? How would you know when it happens? How would you recognize it in your life...each day?

What is a miracle?

To become childlike, with no memory of past, and no consciousness of the future. I would be able to see each problem as it arises for its own merits or demerits and not attach baggage of other similar problems. Doing this attaching makes a problem seem insurmountable. I wouldn't worry about the future, but put brackets around it to deal with it and let go.

To not believe in miracles is to live in fear and in darkness.

What is fear?

False Evidence Appearing Real

If I am fearful, I will be afraid that a problem, or something possibly even worse that my imagination can create easily, will happen.

If I believe in miracles, the miracle of not being afraid, I would know the miracle has happened because I would truly believe in one day at a time and I would feel complete serenity.

Julian of Norwich once made a simple prayer,

"All things shall be well."