It’s said that intentions can be everything; and while nothing is more human than to err, there are times when nothing is more gracious than forgiveness. Baptismal waters or otherwise, superstitions or not, the power of suggestion and placebo effects are real - as they can and do yield positive results for some. Many believers and willing or unwilling participants in, or victims of, various superstitions, personal or communal, have gone on to accomplish what gets labelled miracles due to fantastic odds overcome. Whether it was faith or superstition that empowered and enabled success, or the innate characteristics and beliefs in personal or group abilities reaffirmed and tempered through the unique perspectives of individual or collective life experiences - makes no difference in the world while the power of believers and non-believers of superstitions and or empirical evidence reveals only clues to date concerning the unbroken chain of life and ancient as well as recent historic events we all share in common while trying to understand absolute truth starting with the universe being set in motion long before humans came into existence through the same original conscious and or unconscious forces behind all of creation. Life on earth is metaphorically like one huge living organism with so many interdependent life form components reliant on each other to stay alive - just as our physical bodies are dependent on both internal and external organs and components allowing us to exist in good or bad mental, physical and spiritual health as we influence and impact each other with the best or worst of intentions through selfishness or all inclusive mutual concern and compassion.
It’s no coincidence believers and nonbelievers alike share a similar, and identical in some cases, reverence for the simultaneous fragility and resilience of life with it’s intricate and interdependent beauty where everything is connected to everything else which can manifest as tears of extreme gratitude and joy among sentient beings capable of understanding that much - constituting miracles themselves in the sense that our physical presence and perception of all things, whether right or wrong, accurate or inaccurate, can be held captive through distortions or denials of available information that’s not yet agreeably settled concerning the where and how this life giving rock, with it’s limitations set by nature, came into existence - amounting to a relative grain of sand temporarily held within youthful illusions of suspended animation perfectly distancing us from our heat and light energy giving sun - as everything is spatially ordered in accord with various congruent gravitational forces no human fully comprehends while these tethers comprise but one ingredient of all things necessary for life and consciousness to flourish on our infinitesimally tiny but infinitely beloved planet earth falsely proclaimed the center of the universe before we began realizing with age and unbound imaginative investigations that we’re only children running out of time if we’re not respectful enough of nature and each other’s equal and intertwined natural rights.