"We have to be willing to create our own miracles." [Kabbalah Centre]
Using your imagination to create your own miracles: being in darkness but lighting a match, feeling stiffness in your knees but stretching and flexing them until they are limber, hearing the sound of a bird and using its notes to write a song, wearing a pair of jeans until they are incredibly soft, using your foot to tap out a beat to the sound of rushing lake water waves, blinking away the tears in your eyes until you can see clearly, putting on a soft sweater instead of being in the cold, washing your hands so you feel clean, brushing your teeth so you can taste a minty flavor, drinking a cup of hot black tea so you feel rejuvenation, contemplating spiritual thoughts to feel holy, breaking a piece of challah bread to pass out to a friend, singing a song as though you are a cantor, smiling at a passer by to show him acceptance with a cheerful countenance, cook a meal using your favorite spices, lend someone a hand who is afraid to ask for it, celebrate someone's birthday as if it is your own, listen for an echo of a tree branch falling when you are the only one in a forest and having this echo be your experience and yours alone, giving to the poor even if you are poor yourself, putting a coin into a beggar's cup, buying him a meal, guiding a blind man, dancing joyously to a rhythm that you hear in your own head...
Thanking G-d for being alive and that you are able to create your own miracles and to think of miracles to create.
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