Grateful for Miracles in the Minutiae

I am grateful for indoor plumbing. It might be because I write in an era where people still had to use chamber pots to go to the bathroom. It could be because I’m just weird, but I enjoy warm showers so much, that I tend to praise God for indoor plumbing, usually while I’m in the shower. It gets me thinking about all the things I take for granted, for instance, the human body.Scientists estimate there are around 37.2 trillion cells in the average person. These individual microscopic cells have specialized functions and work together to make up our body’s organs, i.e., heart, bones, skin, blood, brain, etc. We don’t have to remind our hearts to keep beating, command our lungs to breathe, or convince our stomachs to digest the cheesecake we ate after lunch (even though I will plead with mine not to send it to my thighs). No, they do it of their own accord.Here are a few other amazing body facts:

• Your heart generates enough energy on a daily basis to drive a truck twenty miles.
• We produce enough saliva in our lifetime to fill two swimming pools.
• Not only do we have unique fingerprints, but we also have a unique tongue print.
• The human eye can distinguish between approximately ten million different colors.
• Our brains can store over a lifetime 1 quadrillion (1 million billion) pieces of information in our long-term

Socrates once said, “Wisdom begins with wonder,” and he didn’t even know what a cell was. Modern technology has given us an in-depth perspective as to how intricately we have been woven together. Yet, as we go about our days, doing laundry, finishing reports for deadlines, carting kids here and there, preparing for guests, and making a Thanksgiving feast, we forget how many tiny individual cells are working so we can accomplish so much.While we gather together with friends and family, I hope we can take a moment to be still and look around at the amazing miracles surrounding you. Each friend and loved one is a wonderful masterpiece, a miracle of life that God knitted together.I am thankful for you.Thank you for taking the time out of your busy days to bless me by reading my blogs and taking an interest in a budding writer. Thank you for your support, your kind words and your prayers. Know that I’m also praying for you, a good measure of blessings pressed down, shaken together, and running over (Luke 6:38 NIV).Happy Thanksgiving!Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.  1 Thessalonians 5:16-18Don’t miss a post! Sign up for my e-newsletter click here: Lorri’s newsletter