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Written by Thomas Kelly (1893-1941), an American Quaker educator and author.

Have you ever seen a miracle?  I have. Have you ever seen the water of ordinary human nature changed into the wine of divine creative living?  I have. Have you ever seen men and women whose outer world was repellent, or tragic, or barren, or hopeless, yet who walked serene, triumphant, radiant, released, undismayed, living constructively, as iff they were already in Eternity and drew not their encouragement from time?  I have. We all have. Such persons have meat to eat that the world knows not of. Their secret life is not outside of them or around them, it is within them. In a rocky land, they hae a well of water springing up within them unto Eternal Life. Are you such a miracle of radiant eternity lived in the midst of time? Am I such a miracle? Are we people whose lives cannot be explained by our environment, but only by saying, The Eternal Life and Love are breaking through into time, at these points?

The Kingdom of God is not coming with things that can be observed; nor will they say, ‘Look, here it is! ‘ or ‘There it is! ‘ For, in fact, the Kingdom of God is among you. [Luke 17:21]