I continue to enjoy Jim's newsletter adn thought I'd share something from this week's:

In my own life I've known plenty of times when I made
things more complicated and hurtful than they needed
to be because I thought about them too much.
On the other hand, maybe you remember my "Six Miracles
of Nature," still archived online at
http://www.backyardnature.net/j/o/6miracle.htm.

I think it's miraculous....
*       that things exist at all
*       that things began evolving as soon as they existed
*       that life emerged from the evolving stuff
*       that life evolved into many forms
*       that life became conscious of itself
*       that mere consciousness evolved into an ability
to learn and to reflect

Therefore, the abilities to learn and to reflect are
miraculous manifestations. Through untold billions of
years Nature evolved the Universe, pulling stuff
together into forms and shapes that evolved, first
physically, then biologically, and now intelligently.
My reading of the matter is that evolution is headed
toward something unimaginably splendid, maybe Miracle
#7.