Slow Miracles: Claiming the Grace of Long-awaited Change

Does healing have to be instantaneous to be a miracle?

Does love have to be falling head-over-heels to be true?

Must change happen overnight to be seen and appreciated?

Our serve-it-up-now culture might disagree, but I believe that there’s a kind of wonder and gratitude borne only out of a long, tedious trudge toward change.

The dictionary definition of a miracle is “an extraordinary and welcome event that is not explicable by natural laws and is therefore attributed to a divine age...