WHAT ARE THE CHANCES?

 This morning I read a quotation by Kent Nerburn that contained the words, "We are all children of chance."  Scientists say the odds of you being born are 1 in 400,000,000,000,000.  I needed to look up how to say that number, and find that the chances are 1 in 400 trillion that you and I were born.  Really try to grasp that calculation. 

Also according to scientists this calculation considers the likelihood of your parents meeting and having a child, given the number of people on Earth at any given time.  Then let's think about the nanosecond of shared love that resulted in conception.  The probability of the right sperm meeting the right egg is 1 in 400 quadrillion. 

Just for the fun of it, let's also take into account the fact that there are an estimated 200 billion to 2 trillion galaxies in the current observable universe.

According to the internet, the probability of your existence is 1 in 10^2,685,000.  This scientific notation is a 10 followed by almost 2.7 million zeros. 

Okay, now, let's go another step.  What is the definition of a miracle?  A miracle is an event so unlikely as to be almost impossible.  

Now........do you feel that you are a miracle?  You definitely should, because you are.