Of what nature, miracles?

Divine acts of God? Unforseen favorable consequences of some past action by you or others? Or perhaps just self fulfiling wishes?

Do we make our own miracles happen or are miracles part of the divine plan?

Exhibit A: Miracles are a gift from God.
- now it begs the question of "why". OF course the simplest and truest answer is that God is a loving God who gives us blessings. Then there is the rebuttal that not everyone recieves blessings; there is poverty, murder, death and disesase running rampant still in the world.

Exhibit B: Miracles are the unexpected favorable result of our own or others' actions
- aka free will argument guided by determinism. We make our own miracles happen but those events seem "miraculous" when they are highly unexpected. Someone coming to your aid in a time of need might see "miraculous" until you figure out its cos at some point in your life you might have touched the heart of that someone. Or a miracle cancer cure. It is almost magical until you discover that cells can "bounce back" from cancer and that despite the treatment being only 10% effective, you luckily got into that 10% who were cured. Hence the "miracle cure" was the result of all these factors; the treatment, the family and friend support etc etc.
The determinism part comes in when you consider how a bird crapping on the sidewalk can end up with you getting a million dollars. One event leads to the next, determinism determines that the outcome would have always been that outcome.


For me, its all about choice.

How do we choose to see miracles and whether we choose miracles or not.
For exhibit A, All God ever does it present miracles to us. We have to choose to accept them. And choosing is not as easy as just saying yes. The mouth can say yes, but if the spirit and heart do not truly believe, then we have officially chosen to say no to whatever miracles.

For exhibit B, there is also choice. We can choose to see any event as a miracle. A baby's birth can be a miracle, a haircut can be a miracle. How we choose to see it is how it is.

fruits are sweet

Most fruitful vacation i ever had in a long time

1) Got much practice with job interviews (went for 8 total)

2) Got a part time job that works well with my schedule (and its $6.50 an hour. EAT THAT Macdonalds!)

3) FINALLY booked a holyday that is
- goes outside of ASEAN
- without my parents
JAPAN!!!! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaa

4) rediscoverd a certain style of drawing and learned some basics in panel sequential art

5) re-affirmed faith in religion and my future

6) got my movie reviewing mojo back

7) got the drawing mojo back


Well 7 is a good number.

As a result, i am happier.

Part of the time

no luck getting a part time job.

Bloody tuition centers always "female preferred".
THATS SEXISM!!! A male teacher can teach as good as any female teacher!!!!

Everywhere else is either permanent part time or temporary full time. And "temporary" means at least one month.

Yeesh.

what i wouldnt give for some easy money or a job that lasts 2 weeks.

Liberated

thats how i feel.

No worries for the next two weeks.

I wonder if dying feels this great.