After a day of paperwork, I had a lovely drink with some good friends. Fine fellows: good souls and interesting minds.
Most of my friends are atheists. I am not. I have no idea why. Since I was three I have always "felt" that there is "something" there. I can't explain it rationally.
Anyway, it struck me this evening that my sense of the divine has always been based on doubt and the absolute LACK of knowledge in certain areas. I try to love God not because I want the answers, but because I feel something special, something deep in the utter absence of answers.
Hmm...not sure that one made sense.
Peace and Wisdom
P.S. I am tempted to tag all blog entries about the divine as "sexy pictures."
Most of my friends are atheists. I am not. I have no idea why. Since I was three I have always "felt" that there is "something" there. I can't explain it rationally.
Anyway, it struck me this evening that my sense of the divine has always been based on doubt and the absolute LACK of knowledge in certain areas. I try to love God not because I want the answers, but because I feel something special, something deep in the utter absence of answers.
Hmm...not sure that one made sense.
Peace and Wisdom
P.S. I am tempted to tag all blog entries about the divine as "sexy pictures."
This "thing" we feel doesn't give us answers or instructions, but it does feel us with a sense of awe and a desire to do good in our own little corners of the world.
On occasion, I can even love this presence, but it is hard. We don't have good training for it in the modern world.
One of my atheist friends says that he is happy I have this intuition, and he respects it as long as I don't try to convince him of the validity of my intuition. Fair enough.