2 Kings 13:20-21. This is a very short description of a miracle! Elisha died and was buried. Later, while they were digging a grave for another man in the same area, a roaving band of Moabites was seen, so they quickly cast the dead man into Elisha's grave. When the dead man's body touched the bones of Elisha, the man revived and stood up.

That's it, there is no more to this story - just an unnamed dead man being brought back to life. It is one sentence of the Bible. The Bible is so full of miracles - of God's direct interaction with our world - that this man's miraculous healing from even death only gets one sentence! It makes one realize how very desensitized we are to God - the devil has been so successful in separating us from him. His miracles are literally all around us, and we fail to recognize them. I have said before that the more I read the Bible, the more I learn pattern recognition - like finally being able to see the hidden image in one of those weird pictures from the '90s that just looked like random repeating colors.

The pattern recognition that I see, that we are meant to see, is God's interaction with us - his love, protection, and yes, sometimes, punishment of us. Nothing happens randomly - it is all part of his plan, and his plan is to bring us all back to him. In the Bible in a year podcast, after reading 1 Maccabees and moving on to 2 Maccabees, father Mike Schmitz said to pay attention to the way 2 Maccabees tells the same story as 1 Maccabees but shows all the ways that God was involved in the story. 1 Maccabees is written like a history book - just the facts, no divine references. Then, however, 2 Maccabees takes over and adds the color. It pulls the veil aside and shows how God directed all of the things that happened.

This is how the Bible helps us see reality. And it is the way we are supposed to see reality. We are not supposed to be so jaded that we refuse to leave in miracles, we are supposed to understand that everything around us is a miracle!