Fearlessly Courageous
Desk of Dennis Piller
11 6 2026
Mini Miracles – The Unseen Hands of God
While you slept last night, who kept watch over everything you needed to wake up to this morning?
Before you opened your eyes this morning, your heart had been beating all night. (about 34,000 times. Your lungs drew in air while you slept, (averaging 7,200 breaths) and your blood carried oxygen to places inside you that you couldn’t find on a diagram. Your blood vessels, individually, would circle the earth 2.4 to 4 times. Then you put your feet on the floor and stood. Your eyes, your inner ear, your brain, and the muscles in your legs all had a part in keeping you upright. And what were you thinking about while all of that was going on? Whether there was enough coffee left for one more pot.
When was the last time you stopped to think about the symphony going on inside you? Even as you read this, your body is making 25 million new cells every second, replacing and repairing tissue without conscious thought. The brain houses over 86 billion neurons with 100 trillion connections. Times 8.3 billion people. And God is holding it ALL together. How many mini miracles is that? How much taking for granted is there, in that?
A cut you barely remember getting is already healing. The cells in your eyes and brain are working together so that marks on a page become words you can understand. All of it is happening at once, and you can go an entire day without giving any of it a thought. I know I can. Are those classifications of mini miracles?
I’ve had open-heart surgery. I know what it’s like for the beating of your heart to be the one thing your family is thinking about. And still, let the internet go out for ten minutes and I’ll tell somebody about it. Let my heartbeat faithfully all day and I may lie down again without ever saying, “Father, thank You.” How did I become so quick to notice what interrupted my day and so slow to notice what made my day possible?
And that’s just what mini miracle is happening under my own skin. While I was asleep here in Florida, the earth kept turning, carrying another part of the world into daylight. The moon’s pull was helping move the tides along our coast. Somewhere, rain was soaking into the soil where roots would take up water. I can stand at my kitchen window and look at a tree I’ve seen a thousand times without once thinking that a single leaf is using sunlight to make sugars and releasing oxygen into the air you and I breathe. What is it that I see. Really see? When did we lose our site or are we just incapable of being grateful for the goodness and sovereignty of god?
Paul says that in Christ “all things hold together” (Colossians 1:17). I used to read right over those words. Now I find myself sitting with them. The turning earth, the moving tide, the breath I just took. Every second of every day, more things than I could ever keep track of are working together. I can learn how a lung works and still marvel that I have one more breath with which to thank God. The One who gave us life is still holding His creation together while most of us are looking at our phones. Mini Miracles? Where is our praise and thankfulness for all the gifts he has poured out on his children? Who is praising His name? Thanking Him? Shouting about the goodness of God and a love for us as far as the east is from the west?
We call them mini miracles. How many would we call mini, if we had to ask for them back? Somebody in rehab this morning is praying to get from the bed to the bathroom. The day they make it there on their own, there may be tears and a phone call home. I made that same trip this morning, probably thinking about what I had to get done. When David tells his own soul to “forget not all his benefits” (Psalm 103:2), I understand why. I can receive a gift for so long that I start to think of it as something I’m owed and certainly what I take for granted.
I think everyday miracles are my favorite. Two people have been keeping score for so long that neither remembers how the argument started. Then one of them says, “I was wrong. I hurt you, and I’m sorry.” A hug follows, and for the first time in weeks they can sit in the same room without feeling the weight of what’s between them. Or maybe you’ve been quietly praying about a bill you can’t cover, and what comes in is enough to pay it. These are the moments I can be so quick to move past. But if I stop long enough to remember what I was asking God for yesterday, I might recognize what He’s put in my hands today.
Before you go on from here, take a slow breath. Look out the window long enough to notice one living thing you usually pass without seeing. Think of a voice you’re grateful you can still hear. You may have a long list of things to ask God for today. I do too. But I’d like to sit here for another minute and thank Him for what He was already doing before I opened my eyes. Life sustaining Miracles that are anything but mini… and Lord forgive me…help me grow in my gratitude for all I have become blind to.
A moment to reflect
- What happened in your body or outside your window today that you’ve grown so accustomed to that it rarely occurs to you to thank God for it?
- Who has made God’s unseen kindness visible to you lately? What would you say if you called to thank them today?
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