The Power of Love
The power of love is unstoppable - it is the energy behind the ripples of a miracle as they move beyond the horizon of our sight to gently roll onto unknown shores.
-Katie Mahon and Joan Luise Hill in The Miracle Collectors
March 21, 2021
What a whirlwind, The Miracle Collectors is out! Thank you to all of you who have bought the book, listened to our interviews, (check out Murder, Mystery and Miracles on March 26), or gone to our website. We have felt the love in the generosity of spirit you have shared in your reviews on Amazon, Goodreads, Barnes & Noble and other sites, and we thank you. It is a part of the miracle journey we cherish. This month Joan writes about love, which is not only at the foundation of miracles, but is the language of the Divine.
Collecting Miracle Moments One Story at a Time.
Joan and Katie
You have to treasure four-year-olds, they are old enough to speak, uninhibited enough to speak their mind, and wise enough to listen. Having just spent a little over a week with my two grandsons (who always seem like miracles to me), we had the opportunity to talk a lot about love. At first, my four-year-old grandson confided that his 6-month-old brother was, in a word, "Yuck." It was a great opportunity to explain that the more love he shared with others, the more love would return to him, and in addition, his own love would multiply. So, instead of worrying that the love he had to give was finite, he actually would have move love to share. I repeated this message often over the days we were together as his brother went from being 'yuck' to being 'yuck' but since it was "opposite day" it really meant that he was loved. I got my reward at the airport as he was leaving in our final hug when he whispered in my ear, "OK, Nonnie, I really do love everyone."
What we've learned in our miracle collecting is that love is the language of the Divine. It is the message behind every miracle story, and appears in unusual places and in unexpected ways. Regardless of how love shows itself, it always brings the same reaction: we feel cherished, honored, heard, and seen. Sometimes that's just what we need, especially if we are feeling low or insecure or isolated as so many of us do during this time of pandemic. Like young children we need to remember that what we give comes back to us in abundance. The eastern religions call it karma, the bible calls it reaping what we sow. In the moments of transformation that occurred over the time I spent with my grandsons, I gained renewed hope. Hope for tomorrow, hope for a better world for our grandchildren to grow up in, hope that once again we can learn to love one another and find our common ground. Like Oprah, the 'one thing I know for sure' is that we must never let the miracle of hope in the eyes of our children ever be diminished or extinguished, for it is there that we can find the light of Divine love. (Joan)