The idea of a miracle seems archaic in today's world. The Vatican is investigating a St. Louis Girl - Rachel Baumgartner Lozano's - survival of a rare and deadly cancer. What will not become an issue in the investigation is karma.
A fundamental principle in Buddhism is the concept of karma. A Buddhist could argue that Rachel's cure is due to karma. It was due to her karma that she developed the cancer and it is also due to her karma that she overcame it.
Can someone's karma change? Yes! Karma is like rocket fuel. It's the stuff that propels use through life. Once the rocket fuel is burned up it can no longer move you.
Our response to the things that happen to us in life has an effect on the rocket fuel that's propelling us. Understanding what karma is helps one work at a karmic level to affect one's world. The literal translation of the word karma is "action". Our ongoing actions can either refuel the rocket fuel propelling us or cut off the fuel supply.
Rachel lived every day as it if were her last. She also prayed to the Blessed Chaminade, a founder of the Marianist Order, to intervene on her behalf. These positive responses to the deadly direction her karma was propelling her effectively cut off the fuel supply for her cancer to continue to exist. Once the karmic fuel is expended - the result it was brining into one's life is over. Just like that! Just like the football sized tumor that was removed from Rachel turned out to be nothing more than scar tissue.
This is a simple yet poignant explanation of karma. One that everyone can benefit from. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain by taking Rachel's example and acting positively in the face of any negativity in your life.
Does the explanation of karma mean that this was not a miracle? Not at all! Buddhists believe in miracles. Understanding karma helps one consciously and and continuously bring them into one's life
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