“There are only two ways to live your life.  One is as though nothing is a miracle.  The other is as though everything is a miracle.”  Albert Einstein. It is so stinking easy to take everything for granted. As long as there’s food on the table, we don’t wonder about how it got there- about the farmers who labored in all weather, or the migrant workers who brought in the crop- we don’t consider the people who prepare the food for market, or the truckers who get the produce to market.        We forget that it takes store clerks and cashiers for us to bring the foodstuff home, and the time and effort it takes to prepare the meal to which we sit down, all unaware of the lengthy process that goes into the meal which we chow down so quickly. How easily we get used to our conveniences …hot water in the shower, a car in the driveway, clothes to choose from in our closets, quick communication via our ever-present cell phones. It wasn’t all that long ago when letters took months to cross the country, when water was lugged inside from nearby streams or pumps, when a trip to the outhouse meant braving the weather, and the few clothes were hung on pegs on the wall……..