New Thought Philly Sunday Inspiration
Aug 16, 2026 · 20 min · 8 segments
The New Thought teaching is all about inviting miracles - changes to our lives that we wouldn't normally expect. Rev. ...
Bill MarchionyHost
What's a miracle to you? I'm going to start by giving you the dry as toast definition of a miracle.
It's an extraordinary welcome event that cannot be explained by natural or scientific laws.
In everyday speech, the world also describes any lucky, surprising, and highly unexpected event.
In order for Smokey Robbins to have a backup band, it took a bunch of miracles.
When something happens and you think of it as being a miracle, The key part of that, it cannot be explained by natural or scientific laws.
That doesn't mean it's any different than something that can be explained by natural or scientific laws.
As I was thinking about this topic over the course of the last week or so, the difference between a miracle and a prayer work story, and a coincidence, I think is a matter of timing.
If we think of something in advance and we don't know how it could possibly happen, and then it comes about, it is a miracle.
If it just kind of happens and it's that wonderful thing, then it's a coincidence, big happy coincidence.
And if it's something that we would like to have in our lives and we do a prayer and it shows up, then it might be a miracle, but it's also a prayer work story.
And I spent a fair amount of time as a magician doing magic tricks for kids' birthday parties and just for friends for fun.
Everything that I do that looks to you like magic, I know exactly what's going on and I know exactly which part of it you're not aware of and where you're either being misdirected or something's being hidden or something is being shown to you that is not what you think it is.
What's a miracle to you? I'm going to start by giving you the dry as toast definition of a miracle.
It's an extraordinary welcome event that cannot be explained by natural or scientific laws.
In everyday speech, the world also describes any lucky, surprising, and highly unexpected event.
In order for Smokey Robbins to have a backup band, it took a bunch of miracles.
When something happens and you think of it as being a miracle, The key part of that, it cannot be explained by natural or scientific laws.
That doesn't mean it's any different than something that can be explained by natural or scientific laws.
As I was thinking about this topic over the course of the last week or so, the difference between a miracle and a prayer work story, and a coincidence, I think is a matter of timing.
If we think of something in advance and we don't know how it could possibly happen, and then it comes about, it is a miracle.
If it just kind of happens and it's that wonderful thing, then it's a coincidence, big happy coincidence.
And if it's something that we would like to have in our lives and we do a prayer and it shows up, then it might be a miracle, but it's also a prayer work story.
And I spent a fair amount of time as a magician doing magic tricks for kids' birthday parties and just for friends for fun.
Everything that I do that looks to you like magic, I know exactly what's going on and I know exactly which part of it you're not aware of and where you're either being misdirected or something's being hidden or something is being shown to you that is not what you think it is.
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