When we learn to trust the supportive, coordinating power of the universal energy, we allow the unexpected to happen. Sometimes the unexpected is called a miracle. Usually a miracle is within the normal realm of life, but occasionally might go beyond it. Sometimes it is simply the perfect timing of a series of events that seem to have happened by chance, because no one planned them. No human being, that is.

It takes a great deal of determination to resist any negative doubt that’s created by a crisis. Even though we might act responsibly and do all we can to solve a problem, there are times when a solution still seems too far away. It takes an enormous amount of trust to focus on the present moment, to release our control of the future and let it unfold in its own way. This takes a great deal of belief, not in the “best of all possible worlds,” but in the fact that everything happens for a reason—everything that happens is a lesson to increase our awareness of the way the world works.

(Excerpt from The Way The World Works: A Journey Toward Inner Peace)