At what point does a miracle stop being a miracle, and start being simply bad housekeeping?

On Friday, April 21 (which, by the way, was a very prolific day for miracles, with three separate miraculous items going on auction), a woman put a coffee cup up for sale on eBay.  It seems that dried cocoa powder on the bottom of the cup formed the image of the holy family - Mary, Joseph, and little baby Jesus.

As the seller, delynn57, tells us in the listing, "So, when I got to the bottom of my cup of cocoa, I told my cat Cindy, that I was going to tell my future in the bottom of this beautiful flowered mug. I swished it around a few times and set it on the counter to dry overnight and went to bed. When I looked in the cup the next morning I was astonished to that my cup had been blessed with the image of Christ."

In a way, this Miracle reminds me of Tibetan Buddhist mandalas.  A mandala is a sacred image that Buddhist monks build using colored sand, placing each individual grain of sand into a carefully designed pattern.  Building these complex images is a lengthly ritual of artistic creation and contemplation.  After they create the mandala, a process that can take weeks, the monks destroy it, often by pouring it into a river.  This is done to send the positive energy of the mandala into the world, and also as a reminder that all things in the universe are impermanent and fleeting.

And for this reason, I say to delynn57: Put the damned cup in the dishwasher, already!