From: "Vidyadhar Gadgil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Fr. Ivo C da Souza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Why all this heated debate about 'miracles'? What are they worth
anyway?
***People are running for healings and miracles precisely because they touch
their daily lives. They are in need, "they are worth anyway"...
There's this famous story about the Buddha. He watched a
saintly chappie walk across the river and then commented, "I can
cross that river by paying a penny for the ferry."
***Life is not so easy. We have to pay for it. Suffering has its redemptive
value.
That's about
the value of most 'miracles', they don't help anybody in
particular,
***People are going for healings and miracles, when they are in despair...
are believed in only by those predisposed to belief
***Belief system is a part and parcel of our human existence, we cannot do
without belief. Even the rationalists and scientists do need a belief
system. We cannot survive without belief. We who believe in miracles are not
gullible, credulous people... Faith in God gives us certainty...
and distract attention from more important matters in both
spiritual and temporal realms.
***Precisely, extraordinary events (inner healing and miracles) are sought
for the problems "in both spiritual and temporal realms"... They do not come
always to our rescue.
Regards.
Fr.Ivo
