Miracles are Happening
Miracles are happening.
One day, really vividly, I thought of the names and faces of a couple I used to home teach maybe 20 years ago when we lived where they do. They live a thousand miles from here. I had had no contact with them since we moved. It took me a bit but I enjoyed this blast from the past and slowly dredged up my memories of them. The next day they called. They were so thrilled that I recalled them so easily and so well.
The day after Betsey’s death day, a person who used to be very important to her, some people we know here mentioned that the person was visiting them. We didn’t know they knew each other at all, the way they do know each other turns out to be totally strange, because out here we are thousands of miles from those old stomping grounds. Our friends reintroduced us. I was moved and my wife in particular was very moved, and our kids got to put names and faces to stories we tell them about their older sister who died before most of them were born.
The heavens are silent when I pray to know the One Weird Trick to vast unearned wealth (I have prayed this, yes). But they hear the tender wishes of the heart.
Quoteslinger
March 22, 2022
“In friendship…we think we have chosen our peers. In reality a few years’ difference in the dates of our births, a few more miles between certain houses, the choice of one university instead of another…the accident of a topic being raised or not raised at a first meeting–any of these chances might have kept us apart.
But, for a Christian, there are, strictly speaking no chances. A secret master of ceremonies has been at work. Christ, who said to the disciples, “Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you,” can truly say to every group of Christian friends, “Ye have not chosen one another but I have chosen you for one another.” The friendship is not a reward for our discriminating and good taste in finding one another out. It is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others.”
— C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves. from: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/183419-in-friendship-we-think-we-have-chosen-our-peers-in-reality