Miracle Seeds

Every night I read the same easy reader book to my six year old daughter. Each week we pick a new word sight word for her to learn. One of the larger words in the book is 'miracle'. Typical for a six year old she asked me what a miracle was. I had to think about that. How do you explain a miracle to a child? Doing the best I could I explained to her that it is something only God or Jesus could do. We conversed for a short while about what is (parting of the Red Sea) and isn't (baking a cake) a miracle.

Obviously the lesson was not lost on her as few days later we were driving in the historic Old Market District of Omaha when she spied a large , vibrant mural. Very excited to use a big word she proudly pointed out the huge miracle on the side of the building. I hated to dim her enthusiasm but I explained that while God did give us life and talents to use in our life that people had painted the mural. She accepted that pretty easy and it didn't detract from her appreciation of the enormity of the painting on the side of the building.

Yesterday we were talking of the weather and how the snow is pretty but we are ready for Spring. Warm weather, green grass and planting a garden. I said that Grandma would come over and help us plant flowers, lots of colorful flowers such as pansies, petunias and marigolds.

"Miracles!" My daughter gets excited when she hears this. '' I am going to plant miracles with my Grandma'' she proudly says nodding her head. Watching her sweet face and her head of bobbing blonde curls I couldn't correct her. Unmarred faith that only children have and believing that everything that is wonderful to her is a miracle is nothing less than a miracle.