Magic: My Strategy for Adulthood

I’ve found myself this year, 2025, using the word adulting more than ever. There’s a certain weight that comes with being grown—the kind that makes you long for a miracle just to get by. Some days, it feels as though life expects me to juggle a thousand things at once, and I catch myself wishing for some divine intervention.

This reminds me of an ancient adult who lived over 4,000 years ago—Abraham. At age seventy-five, he faced a longing that seemed impossible to fulfill. He wanted a child, something that would take nothing short of a miracle. Yet God promised that through him, all nations of the earth would be blessed.

To Abraham, the miracle he sought was a son. To God, it was the beginning of something far greater. Isaac was not only a miracle child but also the seed of a blessing that would ripple across generations, producing a nation through which the world would one day find hope and redemption.

From Abraham’s story, I see that miracles are often the beginnings of blessings, not their end. The miracle meets a personal desire, but the blessing transforms the world. As I studied this more closely, I began to notice a pattern: miracles rarely sustain themselves. They introduce new possibilities, but something else must carry those possibilities forward.

Miracles, Magic, and Blessings

Miracles and blessings can be likened to revolution and evolution. Miracles are revolutions—sudden disruptions of the natural order based on the limits of understanding at the time. Blessings are evolutions—those same miracles matured, normalized, and multiplied until they become part of everyday life.

Between them lies what I call Magic—the bridge between revelation and replication.

A miracle is a one-time manifestation of possibility. Magic is the mastery of methods that make that miracle replicable. A blessing is what happens when those methods become accessible to everyone.

When Moses cast down his rod and it became a serpent, it was a miracle—a moment that transcended understanding. Yet Pharaoh’s magicians replicated the same act through their mastery of hidden methods.

What seems like magic to the common man is often a method known only to the magician. This is why, in the scientific world, we have the concept of a patent. It recognizes and protects discoveries once hidden and rewards those who transform mystery into mastery.

I’ve come to realize that we are not just meant to receive miracles but to understand them. We are called to become stewards of the methods that make them replicable. That is how miracles evolve into blessings.

If someone had said two centuries ago that humans would one day see and speak to loved ones across the ocean in real time, it would have sounded like magic (or madness). In my culture, we grew up watching movies where such communication required rituals and spells. Yet today, FaceTime and similar tools have made this miracle ordinary. What was once a miracle became magic. What was once magic has become a blessing.

Five hundred years ago, curing malaria would have been hailed as a miracle. Today, it is routine medical care, a blessing so commonplace we rarely even notice. Curing cancer still feels miraculous now, but with time, discovery, and technology, it too will become a blessing for future generations.

The Glory of Discovery

This is not to discredit the divine. I believe we will always need the miraculous. Knowledge is infinite, but human understanding remains limited, so there will always be gaps that only divine intervention can bridge.

“It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the glory of kings is to search it out.”

As I’ve grown older, that quote has come to mean something deeply personal. It is my glory to convert miracles into blessings through the magic of discovery and understanding—to search out the principles behind divine possibilities and translate them into systems that serve humanity at scale.

Technology: The Magic Wand of the Divine

Technology, to me, is the great translator between heaven’s revelation and earth’s replication. It turns miracles into mechanisms and mechanisms into movements. It enables us to scale the extraordinary and make it accessible to everyone.

Every invention and every act of creative genius is humanity partnering with divinity to reveal what was once hidden. And in this context, technology is not limited to those in the STEM fields. Technology is any applied method or system of practice that allows us to replicate value, beauty, or transformation.

Whether in art, music, leadership, education, or business, creative genius can be taught because methods can be learned. Technology makes us all magicians—innovators who convert wonder into wisdom and mystery into method. I’m learning that my responsibility in life is not just to hope for the next miracle but to build the systems through which miracles are created and become sustainable blessings for others at scale. Beyond Abraham’s personal miracle was a promise to bless the world. Likewise, beyond my private breakthrough lies my public purpose: to turn my answered prayers into innovations, structures, and opportunities that improve humanity.

And as President John F. Kennedy declared, “Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.”

So perhaps the truest way to real adulting is to seek to convert my miracles to become a blessing—when I stop praying only for rescue and start creating the channels through which others find redemption. The miracle is the seed but the blessing is its harvest.

Miracles change my life.
Blessings changes the world.
Between them is the magic wand of technology that replicates impact at scale. And by embracing this tool, I become what I was always destined to be: a blessing.