{"id":7992,"date":"2024-01-19T12:00:47","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T19:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/?p=7992"},"modified":"2025-06-07T11:30:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T18:30:19","slug":"on-miracles-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/news\/blog\/on-miracles-87\/","title":{"rendered":"On Miracles [#87]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most faith traditions tell of miracles, or extraordinary actions performed by the deity or saints they worship.<\/p>\n<p>Sedona Unitarian Universalist Fellowship congregants celebrate miracles, too. Their miracles also are wonderful experiences, but not necessarily out of the ordinary.<\/p>\n<p>Unitarians embrace miracle descriptions like this one by the Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh (in The Miracle of Mindfulness, 1975):<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery day we are engaged in a miracle which we don&#8217;t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child &#8211; our own two eyes. All is a miracle.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our miracles are wonderful experiences, but not necessarily out of the ordinary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7992"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8889,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7992\/revisions\/8889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}