When wonderful things happen in our lives sometimes they can feel miraculous. Events or situations can occur that seem to fall just on the other side of what appears sequential or plausible.
To which poet Mary Oliver offers this wonderful advise, she says “Accept the Miracle.” Meaning, don’t over analyze it, discount it, or forget to acknowledge its source.
As an example, Oliver wrote this poem:
“Why wonder about the loaves and the fishes?
If you say the right words, the wine expands.
If you say them with love
and the felt ferocity of that love
and the felt necessity of that love,
the fish explode into many.
Imagine him, speaking,
and don’t worry about what is reality,
or what is plain, or what is mysterious.
If you were there, it was all those things.
If you can imagine it, it is all those things.
Eat, drink, be happy.
Accept the miracle.”
On Emotions 