Miracles

It's neither arrogant nor overreaching to ask for a miracle.  Miracles aren't possible because of anything we do; they are possible because of the nature of God.  We do not personally work them; rather, they are worked through us as we open our hearts more deeply to love.  The mystical heart is a loving one, and thus a conduit through which God naturally reveals Himself.  We have a power in us, but not of us, that can miraculously heal the entire world.
 
Perhaps the miracle arrives in the form of an insight that unlocks a riddle in your life, a reconciliation with someone, or the opening of a door that has long remained closed.  Try as you might, your efforts to break through using your talents, your power of rational analysis, or sheer force of will had remained fruitless.  It was only when you put God first--when your heart softened, you stopped blaming, you stopped talking so much and started to truly listen--that some wall of resistance began to crumble.  You had not done anything so much as you had released the energies of self-will.  You had asked, in a way, that God's will be done.  A miracle occurred not because you caused it but because you allowed it.  In the words of writer Willa Cather, "Where there is great love, there are always miracles."

~ Marianne Williamson