Few members of the Sedona Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (SUUF) believe in supernatural acts that alter how the natural world works.

Instead, most UUs believe that life itself is the supreme miracle. Being alive is viewed as an incredible gift, something holy, awesome, and mysterious.

Awakening to the miracle of life entails not so much discovering the supernatural, but rather discovering the super in the natural.

UU Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, “The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common … like the blowing clover and the falling rain…the miracle of life, natural and unalloyed, is made manifest in every living thing.”

He added, “I believe in miracles because I can raise my own arm. I believe because I can remember. I believe because I can speak and be understood by you.”

Each of us can create many everyday miracles. Others are responsible for our being born, but what we make of our lives–how kindly, generously, and gratefully we live–is up to us.

When we appreciate life to be a miraculous gift that we are given and get to shape, we are inspired to support the fulfilling use of this gift in others. We realize that the world doesn’t owe us a living—instead, we owe the world a worthwhile life, our own.