Few members of the Sedona Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (SUUF) believe in supernatural acts that alter how the natural world works.<\/p>\n
Instead, most UUs believe that life itself is the supreme miracle. Being alive is viewed as an incredible gift, something holy, awesome, and mysterious.<\/p>\n
Awakening to the miracle of life entails not so much discovering the supernatural, but rather discovering the super in the natural.<\/p>\n
UU Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, \u201cThe invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common \u2026 like the blowing clover and the falling rain\u2026the miracle of life, natural and unalloyed, is made manifest in every living thing.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added, \u201cI 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.\u201d<\/p>\n
Each of us can create many everyday miracles. Others are responsible for our being born, but what we make of our lives\u2013how kindly, generously, and gratefully we live\u2013is up to us.<\/p>\n
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\u2019t owe us a living\u2014instead, we owe the world a worthwhile life, our own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 … Continue reading Unitarians Believe in Miracles (#111)<\/span><\/a><\/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-8668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8668","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=8668"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8916,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8668\/revisions\/8916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}