Well, dang. Yes, I am back. Again. Already.
The Sufi master with his insight on our audacity in seeking miracles.... it seems to conflict with the Christian doctrine I was taught from infancy: we never deserve grace, or mercy, but through Jesus, it is freely given to us. It is ours for the asking. If we pray for miracles that "rupture the laws of nature," we don not fear that our bad habits stand in the way of God's grace.

I can hear @manorvillemike now, urging me to go outside and play or get a hobby or a job, something to keep me too busy to over-think stuff like this.

Cheers!

The Hikam, or Wisdom, of the great Sufi Master Ibn Ata' Allah al-Iskandari has long been acknowledged as an essential and classic masterwork of the Islamic science of enlightenment. IbnAta 'Allah, a Sufi master possessed a deep foundation in the sciences of Qur'an, the way of the Prophet and the Universal Laws of the Islamic way of life.