Miracles

Thankfulness always precedes the miracle, is a quote from a favorite book of mine and it is so true.  One thousand Gifts, by Ann Voskamp, has taught me to look for miracles and treasures in everyday life. 

The Miracle on 34th Street is what we lovingly called our family home at 44 West 34th St., in Holland, Michigan.  We moved to Holland in November of 1986 and Christmas was just around the corner, so it seemed like a perfect name.  Life was very busy then; too busy it seemed to look for miracles.  Many of them live on though, and with a very thankful heart I am able to see them now.  The love of my husband is one, both then and now, but the way it is so beautifully wrapped up in  much, much deeper feelings now is a miraculous gift to me. 

I am so thankful for the little children that I was blessed to raise, and how I have only to look into their adult faces for just a little longer than usual... and there they are, in 1986!

On the First Christmas a very blessed mother treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart (Luke 2:19).  Thank you Lord for this ability to treasure things in our hearts, so we can miraculously re-open them and re-live them later.   Please give assurance to all the hearts that are holding their treasures today with terrible pain and loneliness.  May they be assured that through faith in you, you are with them, so they can't be that far away from those that live with you.  THANK YOU, Jesus, this is the greatest miracle of all!