I saw a miracle …

In the mall…

No.

That’s not true.

I didn’t see just one miracle in the mall…

I saw many miracles in the mall…

I saw…

A family with two small children smiling and laughing and holding hands as they walked through the mall…

The cookie store clerk giving a shopper the “employee discount” when he didn’t have quite enough money to buy a cookie…

The laughter of children running and playing in the kids’ play area…

Acts of love.

 Acts of compassion.

But wait…

What’s that you say?

Those acts aren’t miraculous?

They’re just part of everyday life?

Perhaps…

It’s so easy to rationalize them as acts of  human nature…

To say the age of miracles is past…

That there have been no recent partings of a sea…

No supernatural plagues…

No wooden staffs turning into snakes…

Perhaps in this broken world…

any act of love is a miracle…

 A miracle from God, the source of all love…

… for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.  1 John 4:7

God, who makes miraculous promises to us all..

Promises to make us new people…

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.  2 Corinthians 5:17

To be with us always..

“Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you  Hebrews 13:5 

To forgive our sins…

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.  1 John 1:9

Every promise springing from the greatest miracle of all…

The miracle that God…

The God of the Universe…

Loves each and every one of us…

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. John 3:16-17