Have you noticed in so many films, disastrous situations get worse and worse and then, in the last few minutes, everything sorts itself out. Miracles occur … time and again.

We have just taken my 93-year-old mum to see ‘Moana’ and I’ve just read ‘The Girl of Ink and Stars’, both typical of the Disney-Pixar fantasy genre. Although I got caught up in both stories and really enjoyed them, I found myself screaming “but it’s not like that in real life!”. It occurred to me that we’re so conditioned to these ‘The world’s going to end tomorrow’ movies, where some hero enables a miracle, that we seem to expect this to happen in our own world.

But it doesn’t, does it? Plenty of villains that I can see, but where are the heroes? And if we, humanity as a whole, are the cause of, say, the climate crisis or obesity, then surely humanity as a whole has to make the effort to change it? Far too much dependency on others and on technology to my mind.

But then it was pointed out to me that sometimes, just sometimes, miracles do occur in real life. The example quoted was of months and months of uncertainty in a work scenario during a reorganisation. Everybody was unsettled. Nobody knew how it was going to turn out. But then, finally, when all the changes had slotted into place, most people felt things were better than when it started!

And it is true that many situations are so complicated, there are so many interdependent factors that, realistically, all of these different things have to be changed in a certain way before a new order can be established.

I am also reminded of an idea I was working on in the electronics industry, looking at the reliability of silicon chips, for example. ‘Death by a Thousand Cuts’, we called it. We realised that it was a series of very small changes, what would result in a catastrophic failure, but often it would be very difficult to see what was happening until it was too late to do anything about it.

And then we have chaos theory and catastrophe theory: a butterfly flapping its wings in the Amazon can cause a hurricane in the Pacific.

Maybe my rational mind is still too powerful within me to feel comfortable with these as the real life reality. But I have to tell myself and remind myself that simple, logical, sequential, predictable changes are rarely the way the natural or real worlds work.

Maybe miracles, unexpected happenings, are actually more real and everyday than we would like to admit?

At the level of Cosmic Consciousness then all time and all space and all possibilities are all there. Just waiting for the right moment for some new physical reality to materialise.

Which prompts a question? How can we encourage and enable a new world order, without all the current crises, to emerge?

On a more personal level, where we have uncertainty ahead or major challenges and life seems too much, how can we keep going? Maybe having true hope, faith in miracles, is a worthwhile ally?

One thing I have learnt, in the decades I’ve been on an inner journey, is that trying too hard often doesn’t work. Yes, we’ll need to put the effort in or at least the right effort at the right time, but then we often do need to step back and allow the other bits of the jigsaw puzzle to slot into place.

Allowing. Right time, right place. Flow.

Sometimes flow is just a little trickle. Sometimes it’s hundreds of little streams coming together … and sometimes it is a torrent, a miraculous waterfall.

Isn’t life on this planet itself a miracle?