46 So he came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And at Capernaum there was an official whose son was ill. 47 When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and asked him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death. 48 So Jesus said to him, “Unless you see signs and wonders you will not believe.” 49 The official said to him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.” 50 Jesus said to him, “Go; your son will live.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and went on his way. 51 As he was going down, his servants met him and told him that his son was recovering. 52 So he asked them the hour when he began to get better, and they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.” 53 The father knew that was the hour when Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live.”
The moment of serenity is the moment of healing.
After all the begging and bargaining with God turns out not to have done a thing, when we realize we just can't talk Jesus into coming down to heal our son or our daughter or our father or mother, when we finally accept that the signs and wonders we've been praying for just aren't going to happen, then the miracle takes place:
In the acceptance of our circumstance,
In trust that we have been heard,
At peace that they and we are in the LORD's hands,
At rest in the promise that that shall live -- whatever it should mean.
This is what it means to believe. This is what it means to have faith. This is what it means to live in the miracle.
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