“Never mind the musty past; here sat a miracle directly across the kitchen table.” (Page 11, Big Book)
In a game of billiards, the balls are heading where they’re heading until someone picks up a cue and strikes one of them. Now imagine the cue is invisible. Something miraculous appears to have happened. A miracle is an intervention in the system from beyond (from the metaphysical into the physical), which operates using the laws of nature (rather than breaching them). The laws of nature tell us what happens when people act but not whether they will act, because the one thing that lies outside the laws of nature is will, and that includes God’s will.