Jenny Burton — Living The Miracle
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009miracle, n, [L. miraculum, from miarai, to wonder at]
1. in theology, an event or effect that apparently contradicts known scientific laws and is hence thought to be due to supernatural causes, especially to an act of God.
2. a wonder or wonderful thing
Jenny Burton
The Miracle of Affirmation
affirmation, n
1. the act of affirming or asserting as true: opposed to negation or denial.
2. confirmation: ratification — antonym: grief
Jenny Burton grew up a foster child passed from family to family by four different sets of parents who all decided eventually that they just did not want her. At the age of fourteen, flunking out of high school, verging on a life of no hope and the overwhelming obstacles of poverty in the South Bronx, she was led one Sunday to attend the small storefront church of the Reverend Josephine Richards.
