The Best Response to Miracles

“In my studies of the world’s various religions, I have noticed that miracles are important in all of them, miracles meaning events that go beyond any natural explanation and are believed to confirm the power and truth of each tradition. 

In that respect I am no different than any other believer, except that my own miracles aren’t so much walking on water or raising the dead, but the everyday miracles I experience all around me: the millions of microorganisms in a tablespoon of soil, the 200 miles of roots in a clump of rye grass, the improbable bill of a toucan or the crest of a quail, the silence of the mountains, the colors of a sunset. 

For me, all of these things point to a mystery of ‘deep down things.’ This mystery has been given many names. Friends have called it the Light, Spirit, inner Christ. Sometimes it is more satisfying for me to refrain from trying to name it, simply maintaining a respectful silence. It is a presence I feel in the quiet of some of our gathered meetings. Since this presence is found not only in nature but in all of us, it binds us together in the kinship of a family.”

— Jeff Meyer
Quaker theologian