The past is never where you think you left it: you are not the same person you were yesterday — oh - Katherine Anne Porter

Oh, what is life, she asked herself in desperate seriousness, in those childish unanswerable words, and what shall I do with it?

...without disturbing the radiance which played and darted about the simple and lovely miracle of being two persons named Adam and Miranda, twenty four years old each, alive and on earth at the same moment: 'Are you in the mood for dancing?' and 'I'm always in the mood for dancing, Adam!' but there were things in the way, the day that ended with dancing was a long way to go.

Miracles are instantaneous, they cannot be summoned, but come of themeselves, usually at unlikely moments and to those who least expect them.