On miracles

Getting a great spot to park when you really shouldn't. Finding a cheap copy of a great book. Your favorite food is on the lunch buffet today. No one is pumping gas at the cheap gas station. A tree blows over but doesn't land on anything. You fall but don't break anything. Lightening strikes elsewhere. You have one more beer in the fridge. You get an unexpected check in the mail. Your article gets accepted for publication. No cavities. That one tough stain comes out and the shirt is not ruined. You find a new silk tie in your favorite color--and it's on sale. Miracles? I doubt it, but it does make you wonder if pure chance is really just pure chance. I am not know for a person with good luck, but sometimes things happen and it makes you wonder. Miracles? I personally don't believe in them. Just because we don't understand how or why a thing happened doesn't mean it's a miracle. Dumb luck, pure chance, right place, right time. These are often better explanations than appealing to a higher power that seems illogical or incoherent. The rational empiricist would rather just say it's chaos theory at its best, but then again, do coincidences really exist at all? I have no explanation, however, for things that work out for the best when they really should not. Perhaps life is just a mysterious experience that none of us really understands. Maybe we aren't asking the right questions, and just maybe out language is so limited that we are unable to ask the correct questions. So miracles occur. The miraculous happens in a chaotic world.