We live in a day of miracles. I'm not talking about the hourly obsolescence of changing technology. I'm talking about change in our lives and hearts.

If you consider why miracles occur, you begin to realize they arise when both necessity and faith are present. When miracles don't occur, it is because people demand them for proof of divine intervention. It just doesn't work that way. Faith precedes the miracle.

For our purposes, the most meaningful miracles occur within our own hearts, breaking down the barriers and overcoming the obstacles to loving our dear ones.

Several factors have created the necessity of miracles in our lives: traditions of abuse and neglect, media distortion of concepts about love and romance, cultural acceptance of immoral and unloving behavior, and the personal disappointments and heartbreaks that close our hearts to our dear ones. None of these barriers is easily broken down. Platitudes and our own efforts don't solve these complicated issues. But there is hope.

"If you can believe," Jesus said, "all things are possible." Once we realize that God has a personal interest in our learning to love, then we accept the possibility that He will give the help that He sees fit. The "how" is different for every individual and circumstance.

One caution: we don't dictate terms and conditions to God. Miracles don't come to the doubter seeking for a sign. They come according to the benevolence of a loving Father, when faith enables the powers of heaven.

The growth and learning required to love fully comes miraculously when we seek God's love. As we love our dear ones, miracles continue in the softening of our heart. Our harsh, impatient, controlling human nature can eventually be subtly changed to love as God loves: perfectly.

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