Miracles are a broad concept! In a narrow sense, these are objects or phenomena that can surprise a person. There are miracles man-made, created by man. They can also surprise and amaze our imagination. Such miracles include objects, phenomena, works of art, events. An example of such miracles can be, at least, drawings in the Nazca desert, over the origin of which mankind has been racking its brains for more than one generation.
If we consider this phenomenon from a religious point of view, then a miracle is a violation of the laws of the created (surrounding) world. When we deal with miracles, we involuntarily enter into the mysterious, incomprehensible to the human mind, the unknown world of faith. Of course, one can simply say that a miracle is a supernatural phenomenon that occurs, it would seem, in opposition to the known laws of nature. That is, from a religious point of view, a miracle is a phenomenon that proves the existence of a higher mind, God. Many such miracles are described in the Old and New Testaments. There are records indicating that miracles have occurred at all times and in all parts of the world. For example, the resurrection of Lazarus of the Four Days.

What is really going on? Do miracles happen or not? Are there supernatural phenomena or not? Are those scientists who categorically assert that miracles do not happen right?
Here is how Metropolitan Anthony of Surozh answers this question:
“Sometimes people ask themselves the question: what is a miracle? Does it mean that at the moment of a miracle God applies force to His own creation, violates its laws, breaks something that He Himself called to life? No, it would be a magical act, it would mean that God broke the disobedient, subjugated by force that which is weak in comparison with Him Who is strong.
A miracle is something completely different: a miracle is the moment when the harmony broken by human sin is restored. In a miracle, what should always be is restored; “miracle” does not mean something unheard of, unnatural, contrary to the nature of things, but, on the contrary, such a moment when God enters His creation and is accepted by it. And when He is accepted, He can act in the world created by Him or in each individual creature freely, sovereignly.
We see an example of such a miracle in the story of what happened in Cana of Galilee, when the Mother of God turned to Christ and at this wretched rural holiday she said to Him: They have run out of wine! . And Christ turns to Her: What is it to me and to You, why are You telling Me this? .. And She does not answer Him directly; She turns to the servants and says: Whatever He says, do it... She responds to Christ's question with an act of perfect faith. She believes unconditionally in His wisdom, and in His love, and in His Divinity. (see John 2, 3-5) And at this moment, since the faith of one person opened the door and for everyone who does what he was told, the Kingdom of God is established, a new dimension of eternity and bottomless depth enters the world, and then, what was otherwise impossible becomes a reality.”

A miracle is an event or phenomenon that is not consistent with the laws of nature and did not occur under the influence of natural human forces and laws of nature, but due to the influence of something supernatural, an event or phenomenon that a person cannot explain with the help of his knowledge or observations. For example, recently they sent me photographs from Mount Athos, which clearly show how the bees, building their honeycombs on the icons, do not touch the faces of the Lord, the Mother of God, the saints. Isn't this a miracle of God?
Even today, when a person has known many processes in nature, knows about the existence of physical laws, knows so much and with so many signs, he still does not stop believing in miracles. Because often a person needs miracles in order not to lose hope for the best and to know that much remains to be discovered, and there is much to strive for.
Someone is looking for a miracle everywhere and in everything, wants to be constantly surprised by something, but it has long been noticed that over the years a person stops believing in miracles, because he grows up. For an adult, it seems to be undignified to be gullible and naive, he knows more than a child and therefore approaches any phenomenon or event in his life from the point of view of experience and accumulated knowledge gained as a result of training and self-education.
In childhood, everything is different. Children are open, direct, and for them every day they live is a new discovery, which means a miracle too. It is only later, over time, they become stale, closed, afraid to believe in miracles. And adults are often to blame for this, who do not allow the child to be a child, to remain a child longer and to know the most important miracle in his life: childhood. Of course, children themselves strive to grow up as soon as possible, but only their parents are the main and first sources of miracles in their lives.

Albert Einstein once said: "There are two ways to live life: either as if there are no miracles, or as if all life is a miracle." Everyone chooses what is closer to him. The main source of miracles for a person was and remains the belief that, in spite of everything, miracles happen, and therefore what he dreams of will certainly come true. That's why sometimes a miracle is a dream come true. What in the recent past was considered a miracle, over time became commonplace. Society and the world are developing: some miracles disappear, others appear. However, there is an eternal miracle: our very life.
Do not forget that every person is able to work miracles (to the best of his strength and capabilities). We can do something good, please others, make them happy! And this will work out if we are not afraid to be children, if we are not afraid to do good.
This is why Vladyka Anthony calls on us to learn such purity of heart, such purity of mind, which will enable us to turn to God with our need without hiding our face from Him:
"God! I'm not worthy, I'm not worthy! I am not worthy to stand before You, I am not worthy of Your love, I am not worthy of Your mercy, but at the same time I know Your Love even more than I know my unworthiness, and now I come to You, because You are love and victory, because in life and in the death of Your Only Begotten Son, You showed me how dearly You value me: the price for me is His whole life, all suffering, all death, descent into hell and the horror of hell, so that I can only be saved ...

We must learn this creative helplessness, which is to abandon all hope of human victory for the certain knowledge that God can do what we cannot. Let our helplessness be transparency, flexibility, total attention - and the surrender to God of our needs: the need for eternal life, but also the simple needs of our human fragility - the need for support, the need for comfort, the need for mercy. And God will always answer: If you can believe at least a little, then everything is possible!”

Tatiana Lazarenko