Life can find its way to the depths of our hearts, leaving us with the most indescribable sense of beauty and feeling.  Solitude is marvelous, it can also be so beautiful and pure, provided that one can talk to somebody about it afterwards. Scientists who took up the cause of searching for the soul, were at first at least, keen to discover evidence of regular behaviour. Supernormal is a term that is applied to phenomena which are beyond what usually happens. Supernormal phenomenon are events that exhibit the action of laws, higher, in a psychical aspect, than are discerned in action in everyday life. Paranormal is a term applied to observed phenomena or powers which are presumed to operate according to natural laws beyond or outside those that are considered normal or known. These laws may indeed be higher or beyond what is already known, but assumption is nonetheless that the phenomena are in their own way lawful. Miracles are so called because they happen seldom and for that reason create wonder. If they should happen constantly according to certain laws impressed upon the nature of things, they would no longer be wonders or miracles but might be considered in philosophy as part of the phenomena of nature notwithstanding that the cause of their causes might be unknown to us. #RandolphHarris 1 of 6

There is nothing that God has established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a miracle, and exercise our admiration, if it were done but once. Miracles must be contrascientific and therefore necessarily beyond the scope of science—either because they are actually unlawful or because whatever laws they do obey make a mockery of the existing laws. Where there is yet no strong conception of a natural order, there is little room for the idea of a genuinely miraculous event as distinct from the phenomenon of a prodigy, of a wonder, or of a divine sign. However, once such a conception of a natural order has taken really firm root, there is a great reluctance to allow that miracles have in fact occurred or even to admit as legitimate a concept of the miraculous. The Bible does contain miracles, but conventional interpreters of the Bible read far more miracles into it than it contains, because they constantly read poetic Hebrew idioms literally. However, miracles do happen every day, just not always to the same person. For instance, when a person is extremely ill and is not likely to make it, but then in so short a time, the individual has a recovery. Supposed that in some particular case the evidence for a miracle appears extremely strong, it is because “The Lord has wrought many miracles among humans,” reports 1 Nephi 17.51. #RandolphHarris 2 of 6

It is remarkable that, at least after 1893, American President Grover Cleveland was able to smile at all. In that year, at the age of fifty-six, in the midst of an unprecedented economic crisis relating to the federal reserves of gold and silver, President Cleveland discovered a growth on the left side of his upper jaw. A specimen of rough tissue in the roof of the mouth was taken and sent (anonymously) for pathological analysis. It was malignant. Upon further investigation, the cancer proved to have invaded the upper jawbone and spread from the bicuspid teeth (between the canine or eye tooth and the molars) to within a fraction of an inch of his soft palate. Cleveland was advised to have an operation immediately, in complete secrecy, on board a yacht steaming along the East River in New York. Seated in a chair propped against the mast, with a few close colleagues present, including Secretary of War Daniel Scott Lamont, the president was successfully anesthetized. The surgical team began by extracting the bicuspid teeth. Incisions were then made in the roof of the mouth to make way for the excision of the entire left upper jaw from between the first bicuspid tooth and the last molar. #RandolphHarris 3 of 6

During the surgery, a large cheek retractor was used. The orbital plate—the floor of the bony enclosure that surrounds the eyeball—was left intact, and only a small portion of the soft palate was removed. Miraculously, there was no hemorrhaging, and only one blood vessel was tied, and the wound was tightly packed with gauze. After two days’ voyage up Long Island Sound to Cape Cod, the president was up and about and was able to disembark unassisted. Within three weeks he was back in Washington, equipped with an excellent prothesis of vulcanized rubber, which filled the gap left by his excised jawbone. It was made by a New York dentist, Dr. Kasson C. Gibson. The president could speak normally. He lived on, with no recurrence of the cancer, for fifteen years. “God has provided means that humans, through faith, might work mighty miracles,” reports Mosiah 8.18. There is an intelligence hidden at the center of everything, and we are brilliant, and our luminosity responds to God. And we also know that while hate, animosity, and confusion can produce discord, love can heal it. God intends us to be well, happy, and successful. This brings us back to the need we all have for faith, miracles, calm assurance, and an inward sense of well-being. #RandolphHarris 4 of 6

Surely God who has the intelligence to create has both the will and the ability to sustain. An important less we learn is to bless everything, to be grateful for everything, to gladly acknowledge the divine presence—not as something far away but as something close and intimate. Not only is there an intelligence directing the activities of our physical bodies, but this same brilliance is also directing everything we do. How many of us have confidence enough in God to sleep in peace, wake in joy, and look forward to the coming day with gladness? We have to honor the supremacy of God and cannot deny ourselves the privilege of working with the power that put us here. We cannot unify and cooperate with something we do not believe in. So, the starting point, the very beginning of the reeducation of our minds, must be a deep conviction, a firm faith. Each day we should think how wonderful it is to be cooperating with God. Surely this is the greatest drama of all. We do not stroll across the stage of human experience as separated and isolated characters, but rather as actors in the great play of life, the drama of human existence. We must not forget the director of the play, the one who knows how to make each separate line and act become part of the whole piece, until something complete is produced. #RandolphHarris 5 of 6

God is the great producer and director even though he is invisible. We also do not see the law of gravitational force which holds everything in place, and we do not see the divine intelligence that causes the rose to bloom or a cockatiel to come out of an egg. In a theater, when a person plays a part that convinces us, one must oneself believe in the part being played. If you were to see a play and the people who read the lines did not believe in them, it would not be enjoyable. If our words are of the intellect only, and not spoken from the heart, the audience will not respond. This is the way with life. And this is why we must have the ability to believe, to feel, to accept, and to act as though the great giver of life were still giving; as though the great creator were still creating in us and through us. Always sense the presence of the divine—and then let the play go on. It is possible to find beauty and the profound sound of completeness and perfection. As we incline our hearts to our Heavenly Father, we hear a symphony of sweet music sung by Heavenly voices proclaiming the gospel of peace. #RandolphHarris 6 of 6