The other night I watched Oprah’s Leadership Academy for Girls. The show was about Oprah’s idea to build a prestigious school for female South African teenagers who have the quality and attitude of leaders. The school opened early January of this year 2007.

All the girls featured on the show came from poor neighborhoods. Besides, despite their young age, all have experienced very harsh circumstances: loss of parents and close relatives, abandonment, impoverishment… However, what stroke me most as I watched the show was the girls’ spirit. They were all looking up for a brighter future, hoping and working for a better life than the one their parents or grandparents had. All show determination to succeed, to achieve.

When I think about it, Oprah’s project to build a school for these girls that she has never met before is a plain miracle. Usually we call an event a miracle when we think it is impossible for it to happen right here, right now. How could these bright girls quit their world of poverty and pursue a whole new road of high standing education without a miracle? And how can they afford such education? Guess what? not only they got the education but they did not have to pay a dime for it either. That is a miracle.

Thus, miracle is not solely some supernatural, unexplained circumstances. Miracle also happens when someone hears this call of his/her life, pays attention to and acts on it. Like everything else, miracles come in different sizes, some small and some large, but they are all miracles. They can originate from you and me.

Don’t you think a miracle happens when you decide to be kinder to you spouse? spend more time with your kids? give some money to the needy? volunteer your time to the local library? visit an elderly neighbor? smile to a stranger?

Miracles happen when we stop being indifferent.

But just as miracles can originate from simple human, they can as well originate from God, that is when no human is involved in the accomplishment of the miracle. Today a patient has cancer, tomorrow he is healed, completely cancer free. Why? how? nobody knows, but it is a fact that the patient is healed.

Do not wait for a miracle to happen to change your life. Allow yourself to be part of it. When you hear the call, answer it. It is a soft but clear and persistent voice in you mind. Do not shut it down.

About the author:

Sara Mahen is a stay at home Mom who loves sewing and writing.

Her poems and proses about beautiful things are available for everyone to read and comment.