| Miracle
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Sitting at night outside a street-side restaurant on our daughter’s sixteenth birthday. Seeing the light of a friend’s phone illuminating her face. The dark green shadow leaves of a tree overhanging our table. Lights of the inside ceiling reflecting upon a wineglass. The inviting aroma and warmth of pizza close at hand. Vehicles projecting their headlights to the left and to the right, as they drive upon a road built by workers who would not know of our gathering tonight. Chattering sounds of dear friends enjoying their conversations heated by the warmth of a gas burner. And then on the speaker, my favourite, most heart-rending soul song, “Whats going on” by Marvin Gaye. Such an infinite bounty, a miracle of existence, freely offered before us in this singular moment. All created, invented, built, composed, maintained or grown, to allow us our celebration. The buildings, roads, phones, power and lights, music, food, water and wine, for all of the assembled souls here at this precise point, in an eternity of time. What a supreme blessing of simple, unadorned, innocent truths.