2 . I believe in miracles (奇迹) because I’ve seen so many of them. One day, a patient was referred to me who was one hundred and two years old. “There’s a ___________ in my upper jaw,” she said, “I told my own dentist it’s nothing, but he ___________ I come to see you.”

Her eighty-year-old son accompanied her. He would ___________ to add something, but she stopped him. She wanted to tell everything herself. I found a large cancer that spread over much of the ___________ of her mouth. A careful examination later ___________ that it was a particularly bad sort of cancer.

During her next appointment, I explained to her the ___________ of the problem. She clasped my hand in hers and said, “I know you’re worried about me, but I’m just ___________.”

I thought otherwise. After considerable ___________ on my part, and kindness on her part because she wanted to ___________ me, she agreed to have me refer her to a cancer surgeon. She saw him, but as I expected, ____________ treatment.

About six months later she returned to my office, still energetic and ____________.

“How are you?” I asked.

“I’m just fine, honey,” she responded ____________ high spirits. “When can I get started on fixing my dentures (假牙)?”

Surprised to see her at all, I answered ____________ “Let me take a look in your mouth and we’ll see about it.”

I couldn’t believe my eyes. The cancer that had ____________ nearly the entire roof of her mouth was gone—only one small area of redness ____________.

I had read of such things happening, but had ____________ seen them with my own eyes. That was my first miracle. Since then I’ve seen many others, because they keep getting ____________ to see. In fact, miracles are daily events for me now. And people are in miracle, ____________ through them we have a chance to know ourselves and to ____________ the miracles of one another.

Since my first miracle, I’ve come to understand that the time and place for a miracle is ____________ we choose to find it.

3 . I will never forget the darkness, the pain and strong desire to escape.

November _______ grey and busy, and going into an even more stressful December, I was filled with _______ thoughts.

On Saturday, I watched a TV program teaching _______ , and then I started to learn. By the end of the weekend, I had a dining room table covered with sweet treats. I packaged them up in tins, attached a label to each of them _______ "winter love" on it, and dropped them off on a few of my _______ porches(门廊)before work. It shocked me _______ it lightened my mood, seeing a small _______ lost on a porch.

The thanks I received later from the neighbors made me light up. It felt so good, and it distracted me from my dark _______ .

By January I had _______ a routine: On Sunday I'd bake cookies and package them up, and on Monday I'd deliver them. Every week I ________ a few different people to my delivery route, baked a few different kinds of cookies.

Then things started ________ on my doorstep—a homemade cup, a pair of socks with tiny cookies and ________ a gift certificate(礼券)from the local bookstore. Every single one warmed my heart. ________ what I really appreciated was how people began to share their own stories of mental health with me. There is no greater ________ than to be trusted with another's life. I was overwhelmed by the love and care of my community. It humbled(使感到卑微)me that something so ________ had created such incredible kindness. It ________ me that there was good in me, in my neighbors, in the world.

I was shifting into a new season of light, while letting go of a season of darkness. What had begun ________ an attempt to bring light into my own darkness had been transformed into a story more beautiful than I could have ________ dreamed. It reminded me that there is ________ being kind and that life is hard, but there is a quiet strength in knowing you are not ________.