Spoiler Alert! - the last page of "The Lump of Coal," by Lemony Snicket

"All these things are miracles. It is a miracle if you can find true friends, and it is a miracle if you have enough food to eat, and it is a miracle if you get to spend your days and evenings doing whatever it is you like to do, and the holiday season - like all the other seasons - is a good time not only to tell stories of miracles, but to think about the miracles in your own life, and be grateful for them, and that's the end of this particular story."