Despite our scientific and technological generation, we live in an age of miracles. They are so many, and they occur so often, that we tend to take miracles for granted. When one gets well from a serious illness, we say, "His recovery was a miracle!" When we see pictures of a car wreck, we say, "It was a miracle all were not killed." A wife sent a friendship card to her husband with the message, "You love me! Will miracles never cease?"

Every day we experience miracles. They are miracles because we cannot understand or explain them. For many a computer is a miracle of information. Can a cook explain the miracle of a microwave oven which heats the food without heating the oven? Is it not a miracle that on television a conference can be held with one participant in New York, another in Lond…