Just a thought by coppi

Just a thought by coppi – July 1917 written.

There are miracles all around us all the time, yet it’s so easy to find something to complain about in the midst of those miracles. The simple act of reading involves millions of impulses firing across billions of synapses. While you’re reading, your heart goes about its business circulating five quarts of blood through a hundred thousand miles of veins, arteries, and capillaries. And it’s amazing you can even concentrate, given the fact that you’re on a planet that is traveling 67,000 miles per hour through space while spinning around its axis at a speed of 1,000 miles per hour. But we take those manna miracles, the miracles that happen day in, day out, for granted. (Gleaned from Circle Maker by Mark Batterson.)

Reading the above and gratefully thinking about all the miracles that have occurred in my long life makes me stand in awe in the presence of a Mighty God. The children of Israel delivered from Pharaoh’s horrible regime became tired of manna and started complaining they wanted “beef” in lieu of “bread” forgetting all the torture they endured in Egypt. Human nature is to forget and complain. My New Years resolution is to meditate on the word “grateful” in lieu of resolutions. “Lord may I never forget what you have done for me in this life”…and then I go back through time and start listing the many times He walked no carried me through life. I have a whole year to think and be grateful. May I never forget!

Just a thought by coppi