One more post before more normal analysis. So even though it wasn’t actually the focus of some of the most recent posts, I want to talk about miracles and what people said all the way back during the first bookclub. A lot of people talked about the difference in miracles of other Key works vs planetarian. A general consensus was formed around the idea that the Key magic of planetarian was the fact that Yumemi was even active at the time that the Junker came onto the scene, seeing as she is only active one week every year. Key magic doesn’t always directly translate to a miracle for me since miracles are kinda defined as works of God and if Key magic isn’t exactly by God then well… I dunno what it is. But we’re talking about planetarian and not the other Key works here.
So I’ll admit, this isn’t necessarily a good post because I came up with this when I woke up in the middle of the night like two months ago. But here’s what I wrote. Planetarian doesn’t have a clear miracle because miracles don’t always have to be some amazing healing. In modern times, we don’t often see the types of miracles experienced by the biblical saints. We don’t often hear of people who can just heal the blind or deaf or sick by faith. I don’t have biblical references for this but I believe that it isn’t exactly necessary for us to have a ton of miracles in this current era, because when true Christians die, we believe they will be in heaven and have eternal joy with God anyways. But for the most part, the function of miracles/signs/wonders in the Bible was to show who God’s people were and also to glorify God and show a bit of his power. But again, people can still be God’s people even if they aren’t able to perform signs or wonders.
So where am I even going with this? I believe that timing can also be a miracle if it brings someone back to Jesus. An example of this is my own story with God. I wrote about this before but TL;DR, I think that finding God through reading and analyzing planetarian was a miracle of timing. To me it was a work of God that through this random anime game, I was inspired to seek him more.
So back to planetarian, the fact that the Junker came at the right time was a miracle. It’s also a miracle that he survived all of the events that preceded arriving at the planetarium. And it was a miracle that there was enough power to see half of the projection. Finally, it was a miracle that Yumemi was prepared for him. Basically, what I’m trying to say is, “the real miracles were the friends we made along the way.” For myself though, I’d add that this is only a miracle if we remember and honor God by acknowledging his presence in it.
