Do miracles happen?
We have to be very careful in what we believe, because we all have a tendency to impose a narrative on what we see. It’s easier to understand things in story form. When we tell other people what happened to us, we tend to structure events with a beginning, middle, and end, with a problem and solution, even if it didn’t quite happen like that. So when events happen that fit into story form, we are more likely to remember and retell them. No one wants to hear your dream if it’s not interesting or doesn’t come true, and most dreams are like that. But you might tell and retell the story of the one in a million dream that accurately predicts the future, a dream which statistically, you are almost certain to have at some time in your life. In the same way, you might eat a million pieces of toast in your life, and one of them is almost certain to have a passing resemblance to the Virgin Mary, and that’s the one you will remember, photograph, and post to the internet. Now, when you have been i
