What's The Matter?

I took some time to think about an incident that happened 2 years back. Out of nowhere, a bottle of lotion (and shower gel, or something like that) appeared in my side pocket. One second, it wasn't there. I look down, and suddenly, something is in my pocket. Naturally, I was freaked out, and searched for a likely explanation. Obviously, it was a miracle, but where did they come from? I had arrived, initially, at the conclusion that the bottles appeared out of thin air, or "ex-nihilo." This conclusion was shot down by others, and I went back to the drawing board to find a suitable explanation. One that satisified doubters, and not one that necessarily fit reality. Looking at past examples (Jesus turning water into wine, or Him being tempted by Satan to turn stones into bread) only served to cloud the issue. These were examples of transformation, not ex-nihilo formation. I tried to square these facts with the existence of the Law of the Conservation of Mass. I tend to use the logical tool "Occam's Razor" quite a bit. I think about the rules for miracles being "On time and within budget," meaning that you must have prayed the prerequisite amount that day in order to "pay" for the miracle. For one thing, I have never heard of someone praying for something to be created ex-nihilo. Even if they could do so, the price might be so outrageous to make it not feasible. I did some word study and found that both the Sun and Moon were created ex-nihilo. Obviously, no one was paying for the Sun and Moon to be created, but it happened. If it were possible for a person to create something ex-nihilo, intuition tells me that transforming matter from one substance into another would be less expensive than ex-nihilo creation. Back to the main point, would it be possible to pop a bottle of lotion into my pocket ex-nihilo? Yes. I certainly wasn't paying for it. (If the Sun and Moon were no problem, surely a bottle of lotion is nothing.) That said, sometimes asking questions leads only to more questions. Sometimes an inconclusive "I don't know" is as good as we can get. Let's not try to shove God into a tiny, comfortable box that makes us feel secure in ourselves.