As everyone can testify, we’re living in the age of reason. Rational though triumphs everything – science is the new god of truth and knowledge. After all, it isn’t real if it cannot be scientifically proven, right? Someone said to me the other day, “If only we lived in a world where miracles happened all the time, where whales swallowed people, blindness could be cured, and fire lowered slowly onto the heads of the faithful.” This is an interesting sentiment. What should be the reply?
Actually, we are not living in the age of reason. We’re living in the age of miracles. My reply, “I have a different point of view. I believe more miracles happen now, it’s just difficult to step back and realize it when you’re in the middle of everything. For example, every week at Mass bread turns into the flesh of God. In addition, we have the Mother of God appearing on earth; bodies being found that haven’t decomposed through hundreds of years; a small woman performing miracles to the poorest poor on earth.”
Despite the intelligentsia pushing an analytical mindset that ignores the spiritual realm, we are living in an age with more incredible miracles than any other time on earth. We have the power of the Eucharist and supernatural prayers like the Rosary to lead us. This is far from an age that will be characterized by scientific fact and reason, this age will be known as the Age of Miracles for that is more accurate.
In daily life we often ascribe miraculous events to “good fortune” (luck) or the inevitable. This is a mistake. Take the time to realize what God is doing for you, even during the humdrum activities that are necessary to life. It’s often as simple as a protestant friend asking the right question that leads to a discussion of Christ. Or the flat tire that seems terrible but really saves you from being in a terrible accident five miles up the road. I’ve heard the suggestion that we will never realize the miraculous events in our lives until we look back from heaven. While this may be true, we should take the time to examine the ordinary and understand some of the miracles God does for each of us. In other words, don’t be so quick to assume that luck is at work – it’s probably another small miracle in your life.
Jay
