Looking at the full moon glowing like a pearl in the well-lit sky, I was saying aloud from the depths of my heart – I wish I can be rich financially and bring my family to travel around the world, I wish to have the money to support my children’s dream, I wish to have my own time to help the needy.
These wishes seem to be someone else’s wish too. When I lay down on my bed at night, I go into a deeper and somewhat more thought. Why am I making those wishes that may not happen to my life? Are my wishes going to come true one day?
The next morning, I woke up to get my children ready for school. I didn’t have much thought about my wishes I had asked the day earlier. My son was late and had to get alternative transport to reach college on time. I quickly grabbed my phone to order the transport for him.
The request was picked up quickly, the driver was nearby to pick him up. The next moment, my daughter was awake and got ready for class. The traffic to school was smooth, reached her school earlier than I expected. After that, I sat down to drink my coffee and enjoy my breakfast before starting my work. I was having a smile and felt grateful that indeed, life is full of miracles.
How can this happen without me asking for it?
When I was growing up during my teen years, I had this belief that miracles only happen when I am lucky. Thinking that winning a prize at an annual dinner, striking a number in the lottery, being alive after near death experience or being saved in a tragic accident would be consider as miracles.
Somehow, during those years, the definition of miracles was explained as something sudden, and a big impact to feel great covering things of financial and survival, in nature I was told miracles only happen to someone who has done good deeds in his or her past life or was specially selected by God.
This explained how I was waiting for a miracle to happen. However, when I reflected back at events that happened to me, I couldn’t say it’s not a miracle.
There was one time wherein my travel plan to the Maldives had to be aborted as my boss needed me to return for an urgent meeting. Soon after I landed home, I saw the news that the tsunami of 2004 had hit that country with devastating damage. If I had insisted to stay, I couldn’t imagine how I would have survived through the disaster. The only thought that came through my mouth was “Thank God I am safe and be back with my family”. I believe a miracle had happen to me at that moment.
With a deeper practice of meditation and being able to experience life much better, I have started to get the true meaning of lice and witness the existence of miracles. It doesn’t have to happen with a huge impact or effect in my life. It can happen to me at anytime, anywhere.
Moments like people holding a door or lift for me when I am in a rush for meeting, getting a parking spot as I enter a shopping mall, people who I don’t know smile and give compliments, have a good service in the restaurant when it is crowded.
These are miracles that I can clearly see without having to judge its impact on my emotions or overall life. This can happen only if I live in the present, feel it as a natural flow and don’t expect it to happen again.