Colossians 1:16

For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible…all things were created through him and for him.

We often take for granted those things that are common in our world.  We look around at the things outside – the trees, the flowers, the sea, the sky, and we see them as ordinary instead of seeing them for the miracle that they are.  For each thing that grows, each thing in the natural world that we enjoy, was planted there by God’s hand.  The ordinary becomes miraculous when it is viewed through this lens.  Similarly, each human life, long before it is born, has its beginning in God’s loving hands.  Our soul, though invisible to all but God, is rooted in God’s love, beginning and later returning to him in heaven. For myself, when my mom passed away, it was a great comfort to me to know that my mother’s soul was returning to a loving God.  This is the same God who created and cares for us from the beginning. For, as humans, we are part of this marvelous creation, and when we look closer we can see that all life and death are an interconnected circle that begins and ends with God’s hand. 

Miracles
By Krista Longeway

No human hand is capable of creating
The tiny spark of life within a living thing
Although by my hand tiny new seeds can be sown
And in time these seeds sprout and then new plants are grown
I wonder where did the first seed of life begin?

We see new life begin when babies are first born
And we watch it pass when it’s time for us to mourn
Yet we did not place the soul in this little one
Nor did we see the soul leave when life’s day was done
I wonder where did this first human soul begin?

Though we try, we can never fully understand
The way life is planted by God’s wonderous hand
So common that they seem like ordinary things 
Life is sown in a series of miracles that brings
A circle of life that only God can begin.