Jesus taught through miracles.
If the miracles did not happen, the rest of the Gospel story loses all real significance. If Jesus did not believe them to be possible, and undertake to perform them, then the Gospel message is chaotic, contradictory, and devoid of significance.
But the deeds related to Jesus in the Four Gospels did happen, and many others too, “the which, if they should be written, every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written.” Jesus himself justified what people thought to be a strange teaching by the works he was able to do; and he went further and said,
…the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works. (John 14:12).
Now what, after all, is a miracle? Those who deny the possibility of miracles on the ground that the universe is a perfect system of law and order, to the operation of which there can be no exceptions, are perfectly right. But the explanation is that the world of which we are normally aware, and with whose law alone most people are acquainted, is only a fragment of the whole universe as it really is; and that there is such a thing as appealing from a lower to a higher law; from a lesser to a greater expression. In the sense of a real breach of law, miracles are impossible. Yet, in the sense that all ordinary rules and limitations of the physical plane can be set aside or overridden by an understanding that has risen above them, miracles can and do happen.
For those with eyes to see and ears to hear, the explanation of miracles above should provide a credible framework for understanding and believing in miracles. Among the hardest things to accept for those seeking spiritual truth; miracles have challenged rational people throughout history.
Yet, when we analyze miracles in the context of revealing unknown natural law, not overturning natural law, it becomes comprehensible. Just as billions of sub-atomic neutrinos pass through our bodies unknown and undetected by us, most of the universe is beyond our perceptual range and therefore could appear to contradict what we do know about the laws of the universe. In short, what we don’t know dwarfs what we do know about the universe.
So, there is a rational and defensible framework that allows even the most doubtful observer to accept the fact that miracles can and do happen. Let us today choose the miracles we need and start asking God for them.
Once we can accept this truth, we are well on the path to our gardens and the life of joy, peace and enlightenment that awaits us there.
Believing in and living because of miracles ,
Z gardener
Good Morning Garden 
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