Waxing Poetically: Addressing Culture with a Twist of Poetry

“Parting your soup is not a miracle Bruce, it’s a magic trick. A single mom who’s working two jobs, and still finds time to take her son to soccer practice, that’s a miracle. A teenager who says “no” to drugs and “yes” to an education, that’s a miracle. People want me to do everything for them. What they don’t realize is they have the power. You want to see a miracle, son? Be the miracle.” - Morgan Freeman playing God in Bruce Almighty (2003)

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This idea seems a noble one - namely that people’s many daily wishes are not to be expected to have magical cures. Right now, the world in many ways is in peril. Many nations remain at war from Holy Land to Latina America to Asia’s Sri Lankan civil war. The world economy is in significant recession and recovery is slow; and the debate on how to deal with issues such as climate change and how to heal the wounds of abject poverty continues. So often, miracles are thought to be limited to parting the seas or stopping bullets as if God were a hokey comic book hero limited to his shiny spandex and cascading cape who unabashedly seeks to rid the world of all evils.

But the above statement lends itself to simple charity. You may be a teacher helping kids realize their unique talents or a doctor on the verge of an AIDS vaccine. You may be a parent helping his son with his math homework or a daycare worker watching someone’s children. You may be an orthopedic surgeon helping a badly-injured woman to walk again or a clergyman giving hopeful word to a suicidal soul a Still, you may simply be a friend to a lonely older man or finally helping yourself get off of drugs for the first time. Whatever it might be at all, the miracle is often within us!

Wax a miracle.

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