Most faith traditions tell of miracles, or extraordinary actions performed by the deity or saints they worship.

Sedona Unitarian Universalist Fellowship congregants celebrate miracles, too. Their miracles also are wonderful experiences, but not necessarily out of the ordinary.

Unitarians embrace miracle descriptions like this one by the Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh (in The Miracle of Mindfulness, 1975):

“I like to walk alone on country paths, rice plants and wild grasses on both sides, putting each foot down on the earth in mindfulness, knowing that I walk on the wondrous earth. In such moments existence is a miraculous and mysterious reality.

“People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth.

“Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child – our own two eyes. All is a miracle.”

January 19, 2024