Davao Vision Colleges Inc.
Stone Rock Village, Catalunan Grande, Davao City
EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

_______________________________________________________ BOOK REPORT (HOW TO LIVE A LIFE OF MIRACLES) (By: Bo Sanchez)
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Submitted by:
WElla R. GuEvarra
1ST year, BEED

Submitted to:
Mrs. ivie lebria
Instructor

Just like Bo Sanchez I am just a normal person. And yet, like every human inhabitant of the modern world, I have experienced many of the miracles of life; I have received a great deal of hearsay of it; and I know that I am always under its influence and mercy. Though I am unable to comment on its methods or the truth of its discoveries, I am nonetheless appropriately interested in its motives in what it thinks it is doing and how it justifies itself. I agree with the proposition that science miracles has become a sort of religion. I want to know by what power it has crowned itself and mitered it.
Miracles are a very mysterious thing. It has no future explanation like to know the parts of a thing and how they are joined together, to know what things do and do not have in common, and to know the laws or principles by which things cohere, live, and act. Such inquiries are native to human thought and work. It’s just a unexpected turn of events that favors us.
We need to discover a new way of living. We need to learn how to engage with our lives in such a way that we begin to wake up from our sleep, from our dreams and illusions, from our narrow attitudes and prejudices. In discovering this new way of living, I think it must be clear to all of us that the first, most important and last step is to remember that we’re here and that the experience of this “Miracles” is a gift from the unknown. The uniqueness of an individual creature is inherent, not in its physical or behavioral anomalies, but in its life. Its life is not its "life history," the typical cycle of members of its species from conception to reproduction to death. Its life is all that happens to it in its place. Its wholeness is inherent in its life, not in its physiology or biology. This wholeness of creatures and places together is never going to be apparent to an intelligence coldly determined to be empirical or objective. It shows itself to affection and familiarity.

As human beings, we have many things in common. We breathe, we eat. We talk. We move. We sense. We feel. We laugh. We think. We imagine. We worry. We suffer. We hope. We work. We love. Above all, we experience. But what do we experience? And how? Do we experience the miraculous nature of “being” itself? Or do we experience an impoverished, mostly imaginary life based on inner lying and fashioned out of the conditions and pressures of our upbringing, education, and culture? What would it mean to let go of everything we think we know about ourselves—whether positive or negative—and look at ourselves impartially, from an entirely new perspective? What would it mean to stop lying to ourselves about our powers, our motives, our identities? For we all know, in our heart of hearts, that we understand almost nothing about ourselves and our lives on this earth. To be sure, we have amassed a lot of so-called knowledge about ourselves, but this knowledge is based more on conjecture and imagination than on direct impressions, and it is shaped by our deep resistance to seeing ourselves as we are. We all know, in our heart of hearts, that the stories we tell ourselves and others about who we are and why we act the way we do are interwoven with lies and half-truths to cover up our own inner confusion and contradictions. It doesn’t matter whether these lies are conscious or unconscious. What does matter is that they keep us from experiencing the question that needs to live in all of us, the question that can call us homeward toward our own fundamental being.
Many of us have had experiences of this emptying of the self, of “clear being,” in moments of great shock of intense suffering, creativity, or joy. In such moments, or sometimes during deep meditation, we suddenly awaken to the underlying miracle of life and see through the “self” that we have manufactured over the years. For a moment we are able to give up our inner explanations and lies; we are free from the tyranny of our self-image and the beliefs that support it, however narrow or grandiose they may be. Thankfully, we find ourselves in the world of the unknown.
In society today, the word miracle is commonly used to describe unexpected and surprising events: it was a miracle that I passed the exam, however, when it is used in a religious sense, it generally has the extra meaning of being act of God. In the Bible, one can find many examples of miracles, but the central miraculous event is the claim that Jesus rose from the dead after his crucifixion, this was easier to accept as the truth in the past, but now modern science and medical advances prove that dead people do not rise again, they can be resuscitated at the point of near death, but do not come back to life after hours of death. Therefore, can people believe in miracles in this modern scientific age? or are miracles a belief held by the superstitious and credulous people of the past? And if science discovers causes for these events once regarded as a miracle, does such events conclude an intervention of God.
It is acceptable to take science as the study of the physical world and to discuss questions about God as a separate question and it is possible to believe in both, that miracles are acts of God, even though there are physical explanations for how they happen. Some people look for gaps in the knowledge of scientists and if they find any unexplained gaps those scientists do not understand, and then they believe that this specific unexplainable knowledge is work of God. This type of thinking, where gaps in scientific information are plugged with religious explanation is called God’s thinking. Religious people who use God thinking believe that certain areas are out of bounds to science, because they are God’s working, for example the may think that is all life comes from God, then scientists will never be able to understand how it arises. Atheists have the same way of thinking except that instead of looking for what had not been explained to find a place for God that they look for
Miracles happen every day. They are always happening all around you. You may not notice it, but life’s smallest miracles are always happening. Our perfect universe is a miracle. It is in perfect balance so that Earth can sustain life. In addition, each new day is a miracle. Every sunrise and sunset, every time it rains or snows is a miracle that people don’t think of.
All miracles are not always small, everyday things, though. Great things happen to people, and their lives can be changed.
People all over the world are constantly walking right past or ignoring life’s miracles. They don’t even know what they are missing. Everyone is so focused on their own lives and getting things done quickly that they totally miss life’s little, and even big, miracles. People hardly stop and think or look at what’s truly beautiful in life. Next time you are hurrying to get off to some place in record time, think about taking the long route so you can really enjoy what the world provides for you. Don’t take anything for granted. Enjoy life and what is has to offer.
I believe miracles happen because anything in life that is absolutely beautiful or unbelievable is part of something bigger than we think. If you look closely at the beauty in the world then you will see that it is more beautiful than you thought. So always keep your eye out, slow down a bit and pay attention to life’s miracles. They are all around you and you don’t want to miss out.