When something extraordinary and wonderful happens is it a miracle or is more needed than mere wonder and our of the ordinariness? What makes a thing a miracle and have you seen one or more?
I think a lot would depend on the context.
It's one thing to talk of "the miracle of love", another thing entirely to talk of a "medical miracle" where the surgeons successfully completed an operation against all the odds, and another thing again to talk of a miracle where a long standing illness just disappeared.
I used to know a lady who thought every little thing was a miracle and an answer to prayer. She'd stand at the front of the church and give testimony of how she was lost when driving her car and prayed, and within a few minutes she found a road she recognised (to put this in perspective, she was talking about back roads within 5 minutes of her home, not some faraway town she'd never visited before). When her windshield washers froze she didn't put antifreeze in the washer tank, she prayed about it. And, sure enough, the following day it was warmer and her washers worked and she gushed about how God had answered her prayer with a miracle.
Another lady I knew personally was in the ICU with advanced cancer and septicemia caused by bowel perforations and other complications. She wasn't expected to live at all but did, and along the way her cancer apparently vanished. That looked like a miracle at the time but six months later the cancer was back and took her life within a year. Some would say it was a miracle because it gave her far more time than doctors expected, others would say it wasn't because she still died from the cancer.
