Episode #16 is Part II of our discussion about Jesus and his ministry. Barbara Zeman and I picked up where we left off last time, exploring the meaning of the extraordinary things Jesus did. Healing diseases, restoring dead people to life, walking on water, and even … the fig tree.

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We searched for an understanding of the term “miracle” that doesn’t dismiss the heavenly good within the rest of us who experience the same earth that Jesus did. In my Christian Science practice, we tend to avoid the use of the term “miracle” in reference to Jesus’ works, because it tends to dilute our expectancy of divine power in our own lives. Barbara notes that children had access to the goodness and power Jesus brought about — perhaps especially so because they were children. They are not jaded, and they may anticipate the divine power as natural phenomena.

It became clear to us that the best way to understand those miracles is not through human analysis of a physical event, but rather through the realization of the same divine power within each of us, in all human history. We still have questions about the fig tree.

Listen in, and let us know if you have some ideas to offer. Be sure to leave your comments here at the end of the show notes on Spirituality and Christianity.com.

Here are some links related to our discussion:

• Story of the fig tree
• Diane Treacy-Cole: Jesus and the fig tree
• Syro-pheonoecian woman and her daughter
• Jesus and children
• Jesus’ claim for believers to do greater works than his own
• Gospel accounts of Jesus’ miracles