19When they had rowed three or three and a half miles, they saw Jesus approaching the boat, walking on the water; and they were terrified. 20But he said to them, "It is I; don't be afraid." 21Then they were willing to take him into the boat, and immediately the boat reached the shore where they were heading.
John 6:19-21 (NIV)
You may recognize this as our gospel lesson from yesterday morning. As I was listening to it, I noticed the last part of it, where the boat is suddenly at the shore. So I looked it up in my study Bible, and it says that some scholars interpret this as the boat reached the shore as a miracle. After the story of the feeding of the 5,000 and Jesus walking on the water, this miraculous teleportation goes pretty much unnoticed. It's a hidden miracle.
I started thinking about how there are many hidden miracles in our lives, from the creation around us to the little bits of serendipity that make our life better. Jesus' life was full of miracles, and if we take the time to look around, we will often see that ours are too.
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