#Miracles

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

Crowley: We need to make this the tiniest, most insubstantial, fractional half a miracle we have ever performed. No traces of anything miraculous left behind. No alarm bells ringing in Heaven.

Aziraphale: Right. Count of three.

Crowley: One, two, three, now.

*Crowley jumps on the chair and checks an orangey-flowy-something with a tip of his finger*

Crowley: I think it took. That was a class-A surreptitious half a miracle. No one will have noticed a thing.

*happy Aziraphale*

*unamused Michael sighs as alarms are blaring in Heaven*

[leonardospoetry]

One more day has passed and like all others, it just felt like a rehearsal of the past. It’s so easy to get used to this life and miss all the miracles right in front of our eyes. One more day has passed and like all others, it was the first, it was the last.

[illustratus]

Jesus and Peter on the Water by Gustave Brion

[a-path-by-the-moon]

[friend-crow]

Algae is kind of amazing. Like it just appears where there is water. It has found the isolated tub of water currently serving as a lotus pond. How did it get there?

[aseaofquotes]

Ken Liu, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories

[mrs-trophy-wife]

Your desires are not miles away. They are vibrations away. Alignment collapses time. Miracles happen in an instant.

—Abraham Hicks

[deepwaterwritingprompts]

Deep Water Prompt #3360

We’ve all heard the rumors, about a miracle buried somewhere near the river, in the woods. I start to have nightmares about bright lights and too many eyes. I think it wants me to find it. 

[palatinewolfsblog]

"The miracle is this -

the more we share, the more we have."

Leonard Nimoy.

Only Human (for my dear Friend @buckhead1111 ) ....

[dalliancekay]

Wink ;)

[flameraven]

Thinking again about the 25 Lazarii miracle and it actually tells us some pretty interesting things about how miracles work!

First-- and maybe most important:

Heaven and Hell cannot tell who did a miracle.

They only know someone performed a powerful miracle. They assume it must be Gabriel because it was so off-the-charts. Shax says "only the mightiest of Archangels" could have done it, Crowley quips "how do you know it wasn't me?" But no one knows for sure. It could have been anyone near the bookshop.

Heaven and Hell can't tell what a miracle is meant to do.

The Archangels ask Aziraphale, who comes up with a flimsy lie about making humans fall in love, but the angels don't question it.

Basically Heaven and Hell seem to have something like a seismic detector for miracle energy. They notice if there's a big burst or spike of energy, but most things fade into the background noise. They can tell the general area of where that energy came from, but not who did it or what was done. No wonder the Arrangement went unnoticed for so long-- Heaven and Hell are looking for a ping on their radar, and as long as it happens at the right time and place, they don't look any closer to see who did it. (And in many cases, it seems, they weren't even watching for the ping.)

I feel like this backs up the idea that Gabriel's "frivolous miracles" comment in S1 is bullshit. If Heaven can't tell what a nuclear-level blast of miracle power is meant to do, there's no way they can track tiny individual miracles for reheating tea or whatever. So the comment simply seems meant to make Aziraphale insecure and doubt himself. There's clearly some level of surveillance when Heaven/Hell wants there to be-- Crowley and Aziraphale are both concerned about drawing attention once Gabriel arrives, and Hell noticed something when Crowley saves Elspeth-- perhaps all the size changing expended more miracle energy than he expected? In episode 1, it seems likely that they (and/or the shop) are being watched. But even then, Heaven and Hell seem to essentially be scanning the radar, watching for any pings. That's why Crowley proposes that a combined miracle will "barely move the needle" -- they expect to cancel each other out, as they've always done. It just backfired in this unique circumstance.

[godslove]

²⁹ Then Jesus touched their eyes, saying, “Let it be done for you according to your faith.”

—Matthew 9:29, Jesus Heals Two Blind Men

[feralchaton]

“What art does is to coax us away from the mechanical and toward the miraculous. The so-called uselessness of art is a clue to its transforming power. Art is not part of the machine. Art asks us to think differently, see differently, hear differently, and ultimately to act differently, which is why art has moral force.”

— Jeanette Winterson (Winterson, 2006)

[rawhoneybliss]

A miracle is going to happen before I go to bed tonight. I feel it.

[random-xpressions]

I believe in efforts but I also believe in divine interventions. How often it has come to pass that something good happens on an unexpected day and time, from an unimagined source while there was absolutely no physical action initiated from my end. There are far greater powers governing this universe than human endeavours...

Random Xpressions