“Tis the season of miracles–if you are Jewish. And I am. Last night we lit the first Chanukah candles. As they flickered and shone, I thought about the miracles in my life and how miracles are created.
The story of Chanukah is about miracles…large army defeated by a small one, small jug of oil that should have burned just one day burning eight days. These miracles were supposedly created by God. The Kabbalists say God no longer creates miracles on Earth. Instead now we must rise to the level of miracles with our own consciousness to create them. In other words, we must bring our own thoughts, energy, beliefs to the same place where miracles happen. (I’ve written about this before here and how it relates to faith.)
Maybe it’s true…we need to be connected to something higher, or at least we need to be tapped into the flow of receiving what we desire, or simply have a high level of belief.
I watched the candles casting a beautiful glow on my dinner table last night and I wondered at the fact that a ticket to Germany had miraculously manifested in my life on the eve of Chanukah so I could go see my son. He has been there since August dancing professionally. Just two days before I’d been feeling devastated that I couldn’t make the trip to visit him. I had been previously planning to do so, but money constraints had made it seem impossible for me to take the trip. Then my husband’s company offered him a ticket for me to accompany him on a business trip. Miraculous!
This is a small miracles, I know. It isn’t a sudden unexplained cure to a terminal illness, a job coming out of the blue, or a tornado suddenly turning away from a city and out to open land. Yet, each one of us has our own miracles–big and small.
How are miracles created…really? The CEO at my husband’s company offered him the ticket for me. Did she create it? Or did I create it by my sheer will? Or did I tap into the level of consciousness where miracles happen? Or was my desire strong enough that I attracted the ticket to me? Maybe going to Germany was tied into my purpose on some level and I simply visualize so strongly that I traveled through the Kabbalistic worlds–being, thinking, feeling, doing.
That’s how I believe we create miracles–manifest our desires. When we come from that place of purpose and then desire to create something to fulfill that purpose and imagine what that would be like, moving through the Kabbalistic worlds of creation, before we know it–boom! What we desire is right in front of us. Is this a miracle?
You could call it that.
My ticket to Germany might not seem like a miracle in this light to some. Yet, I write about my son’s dancing as a way to support other male dancers. Going to Germany, seeing him and being able to write about that experience is, in a sense, helping me fulfill my purpose. It also supports my son. I can give this experience of going to Germany back to my readers.
Maybe there is some other reason I should go…to be with my husband? For some other opportunity? Just because?
Did I create a miracle? Or is it all God’s hand. Does God really still create miracles for us? Or was the paid airline ticket just supremely good luck?
What do you think?
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Hello. I have only read your 2 most recent posts. Is this a wordpress site? I would like to follow you. I study Kabbalah too and it has been one…if not the only…reason I have come to grips with horrible news about my unborn baby boy. I do believe in miracles. It would not be a part of your movie if it isn’t a chance to change and grow and become stronger.
Thanks. Keep well.
“Coming from a sense of purpose” and then “imagining what that would be like” may appear to be a thought of Kabbalah, but it certainly rings true with what Joel Osteen has to say. That’s what this post reminded me of. When we want something, we will it and must put our faith into what we want and let God do his work. I love miracles of thought when there is no clear explanation as to why great things happen.
It’s definitely not just a Kabbalistic idea, Amanda; it’s been talked about in all types of mystical traditions. That’s why that whole thing about the “secret” was not new. For eons every mystical tradition and every spiritual or religious tradition has said something similar–combine your thoughts and feelings, focus on what you want. However, my take on it about purpose is a bit unique, I think.
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I’m using your post in my class on Magic, Mystery and Miracles. Keep up the insightful probing of holly reality.
Brachot v’ahavah, Eli Yahooooo
Wow, Eli! I’m so honored. I’ve been away from these topics for a while, and you’ve given me hope that I had…and maybe still do…have something worth saying on them.