You Are A Miracle Blog

A few years ago I began a stretching and exercise regimen that involves a mixture of Pilates and yoga movements.  One of the movements is called child's pose.  It involves getting on my hands and knees, sitting back on my heels, putting my forehead on the floor and stretching my hands out in front of me. Every time I get in this position I think about being bowed down before my heavenly Father in child's pose. In ancient Near Eastern cultures this type of bow was symbolic of complete submission before a greater and stronger person. A warrior would bow himself before someone who had defeated him in battle. The implied message was that the defeated warrior was helpless before the victorious warrior. As an act of submission, Muslims still bow before Allah in this way during their daily prayers. There are several Bible passages that speak of bowing before God in submission. It is not a Biblical mandate that every Christian has to get in child's pose before God, everyone i...

I am writing this post during the 2020 Covid-19 lockdown.  There are reports worldwide about the effect that the lack of pollution is having on cities.  In Venice, which recently had murky, dirty, lifeless canals because of the constant boat traffic, water pollution and cruise ships, the canals are now becoming clear and there fish swimming in them - CNN story link .  In India because of the lack of air pollution people in the state of Punjab can now see the Himalayan mountains for the first time in decades - CNN story link . On a daily basis we are reading about the impact of a lack of factory production and travel upon the environment.  This lockdown has only been in place for a few months and nature is just naturally healing itself.  When the lockdown is lifted, it will be interesting to see if Venice values tourism over clean and healthy canals and if Punjab values industrialization over clean air. We face the same question in our lives - what will we va...