Holy people

Human beings travel across the world seeking people and places where miracles happen. Religious pilgrimages are popular among the devout. Holy people draw followers like bees to honey.

It is sweet to believe that some deity out there throws out threads for the devout, or lucky, or holy to find and if they keep their finger on it long enough, for just the right reasons, and in exactly the right frame of mind, their wishes will be granted.

The magic of childhood fairy tales morph in the magic of religious traditions.

But what if all these miracles have less to do with holy people and places, words and objects, or anything else outside a person?

What if the most sacred place, object, word, thing in all the world is simply a human being, or perhaps even a living creature, or even more unbelievable, everything?

What if we already live in that magical place everyone dreams of and are blind to it?

What if miracles come to us, from us?

What if belief is the answer? Belief in ourselves, that we can heal, or change, or be all that we can be. What if that is what the Bible means when it says we are made in God's image?

How simple. Or not, because that kind of belief can't be faked. 

So we trick ourselves and each other by handing over the power to find it by creating places and words and people who are special, or holy and ask them open the doors for us.