I believe in what I can see...

Ask me if I believe in God or a higher power and I'll tell you I don't know. I haven't seen any miracles, no one has risen from the dead in a while. If someone did they'd probably be killed immediately. People are more likely these days to believe in zombies, as apposed to a messenger or Son of God.

Let's face it if someone came up to you off the street saying they were a Prophet or the Son of God your first instinct would be to call the police because someone has escaped the local psychiatric facility and you just found them.

I don't have anything against people that believe in God or a higher power, but I lost my faith a long time ago. Around the same time I stopped believing in Santa Claus. The similarities were pretty obvious to a 10 year old. Old guy rewards you if you've been good, punishes you when you've been bad. I couldn't bring myself to dismiss one and not the other.

Now before someone starts in on the, "If you don't believe in something, you'll fall for anything" crap. Let me tell you what I do believe in, and that's Human Grace. This is something I can see with my own eyes.

Every once in a while when you look past the wars, crime, and savagery of the world you'll find a moment where a person will do something altruistic that will show you that Hope does still exist in the world. A moment when giving up just doesn't seem like a good idea anymore.

Now it doesn't often seem particularly obvious when it happens. In fact if you blink you might miss it, and if you don't look for it you'll never see it. You have to look past the next big reality TV show, or Drama, and maybe even outside the universe that is constantly revolving around you and me.

After all if anyone isn't perfect it's "this guy," but I'm trying to be better, and don't have all the answers. I never will, but if you're paying attention like me, we might learn more then most.

Like I said before I don't know if God exists or not, but I don't see Him making our world a better place I see us doing it.


Some places that I've found Hope for our world...
www.feedprojects.org
www.lnt.org
www.facebook.com/facebookforgood
http://blog.charitynavigator.org/

Please don't post any religious comments to this blog. I'll just delete them. I'm not trying to push my beliefs on you, don't try to save me.