Everything's A Miracle!

I came home from work one evening some years ago. It was a Monday in February, it was cold, the sky was gray and the trees were bare, and I had had a stressful day at the office. As I put my key in the side door, I could see my three-and-a-half-year-old daughter waiting for me on the landing.

She often came to the door to greet me. On this day, though, she was really excited about something. She was jumping up and down in place! I opened the door and she immediately greeted me with the news. "Daddy! Daddy! Red bird! Fence! Fly away!"

She grabbed me by the hand and walked me to her bedroom window. There on the fence in the backyard, in the middle of a dreary Michigan winter, a cardinal had landed. Then it flew away.

Everything's a miracle. Sometimes you just have to look at the world through a child's eyes to remind yourself of it.