There is a scene from a series called Joan of Arcadia (a truly undervalued series from the early 2000s) where Joan asks teen boy God to show her a miracle, and he points to a tree. She says “that’s just a tree” and he replies “Lets see you make one”
Do you believe in magic?
Oh yeah, I entirely follow that logic.
People “thank god” when a plane plummeting to the earth is “miraculously saved” from disaster, but they don’t question why the plane started to plummet to earth in the first place. They don’t ask why the god they are thanking caused the plane to plummet before saving it from exploding.
There’s a character in “Studio 60 on The Sunset Strip” called Harriet Hayes who has a quote :-
My mother got cancer when I was fifteen. And I said, "Mom, how come you never say 'why me?’” and she said "I never ask God ‘Why me’ when the good things happened, so I shouldn’t ask now.”
Just so as you understand, I am from the group that would follow the second half of the title (“and we find magic everywhere”). I don’t have a god – Christian or otherwise – however I am one for random philosophising, and for listening to the opinions of others when they are purely academic and not being forced on me :)
Also I cannot overstate how good a series “Joan of Arcadia” was for this.