
The greatest miracles have to do with gratuity, with love, with unfreezing a soul, and with forgiveness. Our great poverty is that these go mostly unnoticed. Spirituality writer, Benoit Standaert, suggests that the greatest miracle is “that the freely given exists, that there is love that makes whole and that embraces what has been lost, that chooses what had been rejected, that forgives what has been found guilty beyond appeal, that unites what had seemingly been torn apart forever. Whenever we strive to bring a little more peace through justice here on earth and, in whatever form, change sadness into happiness, heal broken hearts, or assist the sick and the weak, we arrive directly at God, the God of the resurrection.” Fr. Rolheiser writes that forgiveness is the most astonishing miracle we will ever see or experience on this side of eternity. It, alone, makes for the possibility of heaven and happiness.