Lent 2021: A Story to Live BySample

The delicate miracle

Miracles

It's not always the big miracles – 

the thunderous, pulsating, 

ground-shaking ones – 

but those that are small,

delicate, unheralded:

like when the sobs finally stop.

Or when the anxiety begins to fade.

Or when the blackbird decides

that there is enough light

to begin praising the new day.

It's when your broken heart 

eventually accepts 

that it can begin to heal,

or when the delicate stem

pushes through the dirt

to discover that air and light are real.

It may just be

to open your eyes

after a night at the end of your rope,

to find that your lungs

are way ahead of you

and never stopped breathing in hope.

It's not the big miracles,

not the ones that shout

and shine,

it's the small miracles 

that are sent to show us 

the loving hand

of the divine.

Author: Gideon Heugh