Real miracles bother people, like strange sudden pains unknown in medical literature.

Real miracles bother people, like strange sudden pains unknown in medical literature. It's true: They rebut every rule all we good citizens take comfort in. Lazarus obeying orders and climbing up out of the grave - now there's a miracle, and you can bet it upset a lot of folks who were standing around at the time. When a person dies, the earth is generally unwilling to cough him back up. A miracle contradicts the will of the earth.

Why is it our failures only show us more clearly the people we are failing?

I remember it as October days are always remembered, cloudless, maple-flavored, the air gold and so clean it quivers.

Once traveling, it's remarkable how quickly faith erodes. It starts to look like something else--ignorance, for example. Same thing happened to the Israelites. Sure it's weak, but sometimes you'd rather just have a map.

I prayed the Lord would sort (my prayers) out and answer as needed. Above all that he would hurry.

When a person dies, the earth is generally unwilling to cough him back up. A miracle contradicts the will of earth.