#Miracles

Faith as Vision Beyond Ordinary Limits

Still, ten Boom’s statement doesn’t license passivity. If faith “sees” and “believes,” it also implicitly acts—because perception and trust shape decisions. Yet the posture remains humble: to receive is to admit dependence, and to call something “impossible” is to confess one’s limits rather than inflate one’s power. As a result, faith becomes both risk and responsibility. It risks disappointment because it hopes beyond evidence, but it also demands integrity—patience, compassion, and perseverance—so that belief does not become escapism. In this way, her triad ultimately describes a life oriented toward hope that works in the world while refusing to be defined by what the world says cannot be done. [...]

Great Love and the Everyday Work of Miracles

From this vantage, science provides corroboration. Social connection predicts longevity, as Holt-Lunstad et al. (PLoS Medicine, 2010) found: strong relationships are associated with markedly lower mortality risk. Likewise, the clinical power of care is measurable; in irritable bowel syndrome, practitioner warmth and empathy amplified patient improvement, strengthening the placebo response (Kaptchuk et al., BMJ, 2008). Even at the level of attention and possibility, love broadens what we can perceive and attempt—Barbara Fredrickson’s broaden-and-build theory (American Psychologist, 2001) shows positive emotions like love expand thought–action repertoires, seeding resilience. In short, care does not merely console; it alters trajectories. [...]

Believe in the Impossible, in the Miraculous, in the Transcendent - Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The mention of 'the miraculous' reflects a call to recognize and appreciate the extraordinary, suggesting that miracles—events that defy normal explanation—can happen if one is open to them. [...]