My logical self does not hold much stock in signs or premonitions, but as the campaign went on, I knew something larger was afoot. I had a tugging feeling in my heart that I was supposed to do something, but I didn’t know what. I now know that I was being tested. Whenever God spoke to any of the patriarchs in the Bible, to whom he was going to give a task, He always started the conversation by calling their name, sometimes several times, until they said something tantamount to, ‘Yes, I’m listening.’ He called Adam, Noah, Abraham and Moses in this
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Being a man grounded in science, facts and logic, I am the last person one would, and should, expect to believe in miracle and signs. I’ve scoffed throughout my life at self-proclaimed prophets and miracle-workers. What mere human could be capable of such? Obviously the problem is not in the answer, but rather the Typically, those that either come to, or return to, religion later in life, rather than as a child or young adult, have a dramatic, life-changing story as to why. I, on the other hand, do not. While having had no firm beliefs on or in God, I have always believed that there was a great, undefinable something out there. And, proclaiming no knowledge or understanding of what it was, I was free and open to accept the possibility that it could be anything. It could be a monotheistic God as the Christians believe. It could be a pantheon of gods as the Hindus believe. It could be a hugely complex mathematical equation that held the rules for all existence. It could be little green men that seeded the Earth with all forms of life. I was open to all ideas. Having no particular sense of God also freed me from the dogma and traditions of any particular religion and allowed me to more easily accept scientific facts, such as disease through virii and bacteria, genetics, evolution and the big bang theory. In fact, I come from a scientific background, although not physical science such as biology or chemistry. So, I am trained to think logically, rationally, critically. I am trained to mentally break apart a concept to its component parts, analyze each and understand the whole. And, this is how I approach all things, including religion. The secular scientist in me tried to reject the notion of God, and the arguments of many religious people made it very easy. The closed-minded, eyes-wide-shut views many religious people take on science, especially on generally accepted scientific principles such as evolution and carbon dating, made it easy to dismiss their views entirely as ignorant of human achievement since the middle ages. But still, I had this sense that everything in my life had happened and was happening for a reason. I could not explain it; I did not like that I could not explain it, but it finally came into |
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