Miracles

All things were made by him, and nothing was made without him. John 1:3

Erin Marie Burns

From where I write there are miracles. Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary is built on a beautiful ridge of the great battlefield. So much history is found the magnificent fields. When starting seminary a person understands, God will be there. What is found, the visible signs of God’s love and miracles! Every day is a new wonder as I look out and see something new. Especially new ways of looking at things never perceived the day before.

                The eternal light monument is where I glimpsed a miracle this year. One evening just before starting my first year of studies, it occurred that I could watch the sun disappear as the night sky rose. This particular monument is very large, concrete, and erected as an honor to the soldiers who died almost 150 years ago. There was the most amazing site! The colors through the sky were the most vibrant imaginable. There was white, and blues, and yellows, and red! The red hue shot across the sky reaching out and radiating the mountains to the right of me.

                Those mountains were large, quite, and never changing. I wondered how long they have been here. How the heavenly father could have created such beautiful sites. In the distance, was the historic seminary.  During the battle buildings were lost, yet the same buildings stand where many wounded were hospitalized and where the first day of the battle began. To the left was the town of Gettysburg. The streetlights were now visible under the night sky. Lights began shining all over the horizon from the college and the streets of town. What a wonder thought how this town was made by man, but originally by God.

                The scene miraculous, yes! The beauty and the wonder of God’s creation are astounding. So often in the rush of life, we forget to look for those little miracles. Every day we should be seeking those sights and wonder of nature at a local lake, in the eyes of our children, and in those who were afflicted and now healed.  During our Easter celebrations let us remember the miracles of empty tombs. Praise God for all his miracles in our lives and for the special miracle of his son, Jesus Christ!