Counting Miracles

The Unseen Saves That Quietly Kept Us Here

We talk about the battles we remember: The breakups, the losses, the years that nearly broke us, but we rarely talk about the things we survived without ever knowing we were in danger.

The moments that never made it into our story, because they ended before they began. The accident that didn’t happen. The call you didn’t answer. The road you didn’t take. These are the quiet, invisible miracles - a kind of protection that doesn’t announce itself.

It doesn’t come with flashing lights or dramatic rescues. It arrives quietly - it shows up as a feeling, as a hesitation, a strange heaviness, a sudden change of mind that makes no logical sense.

When people hear the word miracle, they often imagine the dramatic: sudden healing, impossible timing, a door flung open against all odds and sometimes miracles are exactly that, but more often, they’re quieter... smaller. So ordinary, they blend into the background of a life that simply continues.

You wake up late and miss the bus. You feel an unexplainable urge to take a different route. You cancel plans for no clear reason, only to find out later something went wrong where you would have been. We brush it off as coincidence, but what if it wasn’t?

What if there is an inner intelligence in you - something ancient, intuitive, deeply embodied - that is always scanning, sensing, guiding?

Call it intuition. Call it instinct. Call it your inner thug - that fierce, protective part of you that doesn’t speak in full sentences, but in nudges and gut feelings. The part that says, not today. The part that pulls you back when your mind is busy convincing you to push forward, because your body knows things before your mind catches up.

Science tells us our nervous system is constantly reading cues we aren’t consciously aware of: Energy shifts, patterns, subtle changes in the environment. Long before danger becomes obvious, your body has already clocked it. Whether you understand it biologically or spiritually, the signal is the same.

I still think about the day I felt a heaviness I couldn’t explain - and stayed home. I never found out what I avoided and maybe that’s the point.

Your spirit has its own language: a tightening in the chest, a sudden wave of unease, a strong urge to slow down. Not fear - guidance!

We’ve been taught to override these signals, to be rational, to push through and to ignore the quiet voice in favour of plans, productivity and politeness, but think back...

How many times did you almost do something… and didn’t? How many times did you listen to a feeling you couldn’t explain - and you’re still here?

These are miracles too!

Counting miracles doesn’t mean denying pain or pretending life is easy. It means refusing to let hardship be the only thing we tally. It means noticing not just what hurt us, but what held us. Not just what happened, but what didn’t.

A miracle is waking up when yesterday felt unbearable.
A miracle is choosing differently without knowing why.
A miracle is being guided away from something you never had to survive.

We rarely honour these moments, because they don’t come with proof. There’s no before-and-after photo. No dramatic story arc. Just a life that quietly continues, but survival doesn’t only look like escaping what happened. Sometimes, it looks like being guided away from what never did.

There is something deeply humbling about realising how many times you were protected without your consent, without your awareness, without your gratitude in the moment.

Survival doesn’t only look like escaping what happened. Sometimes, it looks like being guided away from what never did.

So, maybe counting miracles isn’t about keeping score. Maybe it’s about attention. About ending the day and gently asking, "What held me today?", "What went right?", "What saved me in ways I’ll never fully know?", because even when everything isn’t okay, something often is!

It doesn’t mean life won’t hurt you. It doesn’t mean bad things won’t happen. It means you are not as alone as you think.

Something in you - and perhaps beyond you - has been walking with you this whole time.

So, the next time your body says, wait. The next time your intuition whispers, choose differently....

Listen!

Not because you’re afraid, but because you trust the part of you that has already saved your life more times than you’ll ever know and maybe that’s a miracle worth talking about.

Reflection

What would your life look like if you stopped questioning your intuition and started collaborating with it?

With you on the journey,
– Storm Reagan
Life Coach | Lived Experience Guide