I love this quote from Richard Wilkins: Miracles start to happen when you give as much energy to your dreams as you do to your fears." Wilkins' quote suggests that we play an important role when it comes to miracles happening in our own lives. I like that thought.
Augustine claims that miracles happen every day, that we just get so used to seeing them that we come to accept them as the "norm". According to this line of thought, our first step to seeing miracles is recognizing them in daily life.
But Wilkins is not speaking of those kinds of miracles. He is addressing the big miracles. He is saying that in some sense, such miracles are spawned by daring desires. He is as much as saying, you cannot grasp what you are not stretching for, and you cannot capture that which you are not pursuing.
I think he is saying even more. I think Wilkins is telling us that it takes energy to hold on to our fears, lots of energy. And if we would just turn that energy toward believing in our dreams, that energy would help the miracle come about. He is suggesting that we have a choice, that we have a role in making miracles happen in our lives.
For everyone has a dream. But not everyone sees the miracle.
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