DAY 54 --- Are Lessons - Miracles?

Since Bonnie has been out of town until yesterday, Monday, I had a lot of free time.  I read the Ensign.  What a great read.  I loved the inner articles.  They were mainly on the atonement, resurrection, and changing ourselves. I loved them.  Rather than asking Father in prayer to change the circumstances, the challenges, the difficulties I am enduring, I need to ask for a blessing to help me endure, learn from, and grow from them.  Father, help me learn to change myself rather than the circumstances.

Elder Bednar brought up many examples in the Book of Mormon showing that we need to endure better, learn how to cope and learn from challenges.  Often He does not relieve us from challenges, but He wants us to change ourselves to fit and learn from those challenges. 

And as we do this, we will grow closer to Father and become more serviceable to Him.  That is what we need, to be more serviceable to Him no matter where we are called to serve.  There are lessons all over right now.  I guess we could call them miracles.  Are lessons miracles?

After I wrote that, I left this post to consider that question.  Are lessons miracles?  Most would immediately decide that they are two DIFFERENT items.  And as I think more and more about it, I am deciding that I am getting a headache.  Maybe, we need a good definition about what a lesson is.  To me, a lesson is a concept, a principle, a teaching, a part of the gospel that is taught through a trial. 

Some "lessons" could be as follows:  Administrations are not all unto healing.  Prayers are not always answered when we want them to be.  Father is no respector of persons.  Often suffering can be a blessing.  Father knows all and is not surprised with any event or happening.  All things have been done in His wisdom. Faith is not a perfect knowledge of things.  The atonement is not only for relieving sins, guilt, and changing a life.

Miracles are events that are difficult and often impossible to explain in our present existence.  Are they the same, perhaps not.  Then why is my mind trying to find a correlation between the two? Maybe there isn't one?