Faith

We are constantly searching for magic, but in today's world we are too embarrassed to call it magic. Yet, two thousand years from now I believe people will look back at us the way we do the ancient Egyptians. Our religions will look so primitive to them.

And yet what they replace them with will probably be just another form of magic seeking, rituals designed to make them feel as if they have some control over this elusive thing we call God, or gods.

Not that there isn't a power who does the godly things, the Creator exists. I"m sure of that because we exist and earth exists and the universe exists. It is only our understanding that is still very primitive. We conceive of God in our own image with all of our shortcomings and failings. We make God personal.

I think we will discover God is more like mathmatics and engineering and science and that the magic is what we now call faith because without faith the miracles don't occur. We look for the light and when we plug into the electricity it comes on.

The electricity is only a catalyst that allows the light to do what it is built to do. Only the light does not feel it must praise the electricity, or bow down before it, or sacrifice to it. It does not need to do that. It only needs to plug in. And that is what faith is. It is the way we plug into the power we call God.

Who knows what this power is? I don't, but I do believe it is much more than a being who can be cajoled and prodded and praised so we can get our way. It  must be immensely powerful to keep the planets in orbit and the gravity working, and I think there is a little piece of us that can mimic some of that if we plug into it . . . if we have faith in it, or ourselves, or both.