The mistake man made was to eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Before that, God would walk with man every morning and help him get his priorities straight. That was and remains God’s unchangeable desire – to personally guide us – but the desire to try to figure things out on our own apart from Him burns deeply in our hearts.
The Law, which was written not only in the Jewish Torah, but also in the heart of every man born, is like a mirror that shows us where we are – separated from Him. It is merciless in that it points out our condition without offering a remedy.
Miracles happen when the presence of God breaks back into our lives. The blind see, the dirty become clean, the lame walk, we have a place to go while the army that was bearing down on us is drown. All of which directs us to Calvary, where the punishments that justice demands (because of our misguided decisions about good and evil apart from God) are once and for all satisfied. There, it becomes possible to turn around from the bad decisions of our past and receive the ongoing personal counsel that God wanted to give us in the first place.
Magic is available to patch up consequences that appear because we are living apart from God. The seemingly good news is that we can have supernatural help to get what we need, want and desire while we continue manage our lives separated from our creator.
Science helps us understand the reality we live in. The paradox of it is, the more you lean on science to order your world, the more it becomes for you either magic or miracle.
Sunday or Monday ends Ramazan and starts three days of Eid celebration. (They don’t depend on science to say which day the new moon will appear to start the holiday. Every year they announce that they’ve sighted the new moon several hours after sunset – an astronomical impossibility). The first day is for visiting families, the other two are for visiting coworkers and clansmen. To visit someone is to show your respect for them. There is a protocol for visiting, including limiting time spent because the hosts, too, must go out and visit. But if you’re in our neck of the woods, scrap the protocol and come on over and set a spell.
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