Morning Briefings

Miracles are retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

– C.S. Lewis

December’s gifts–custom, ceremony, celebration, consecration–come to us wrapped up, not in tissue and ribbons, but in cherished memories. This is the month of miracles. The oil that burns for eight days, the royal son born in a stable, the inexplicable return of Light on the longest, darkest day of the year. Where there is love, there are always miracles.

– Sarah Ban Breathnach
Simple Abundance

Tebow-Mania still breathes. It breathes at least until next weekend, when top-seeded New England will try to stop what it thought it had stopped almost a month ago. Nobody’s going to give the Broncos a chance, and they probably shouldn’t. It doesn’t matter. This strange but irresistible sports story is already sealed in the books. Tim Tebow has won.

– Jason Gay, The Wall Street Journal
Tebow-Mania Blasts Into Overtime

Don’t pray for miracles. Pray for powers equal to your tasks, and you will be the miracle.

– Pastor Robert Fehlman

Fortunate are those who take the first steps. Someday people will realize that men and women are capable of speaking the language of the angels–and that all of us are possessed of the gifts of the Holy Spirit and that we can perform miracles, cure, prophesy and understand.

– Paulo Coelho
By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

When we finally allow God to work fully within us, the results may seem like a miracle.

– Kenneth E. Grabner
Focus Your Day

I did not create myself, it is a gift. I am me, that is a miracle.

– Hugh Prather
Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person

Rarely do we realize that we are in the midst of the extraordinary. Miracles occur all around us, signs from God show us the way, angels plead to be heard, but we pay little attention to them because we have been taught that we must follow certain formulas and rules if we want to find God.

– Paulo Coelho
By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

December’s gifts–custom, ceremony, celebration, consecration–come to us wrapped up, not in tissue and ribbons, but in cherished memories. This is the month of miracles. The oil that burns for eight days, the royal son born in a stable, the inexplicable return of Light on the longest, darkest night of the year. Where there is love, there are always miracles.

– Sarah Ban Breathnach
Simple Abundance

No one is ever ‘finished.’ The top of one mountain is always the bottom of another, and even if someone meets us when we feel ‘on top’ of things, the chances are good that very soon we’ll be going through something that challenges us. It is our commitment to growth that makes this inevitable.

– Marianne Williamson
A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of “A Course in Miracles”