I had a dream the other day that scared me. I was looking into a mirror and I said to myself that everything all existence was a dream. Then, I shook my head and looked back at myself. The reflection of myself looked exactly like me except instead of my eyes, I saw two deep black holes. My dream changed after that, and I can’t remember what happened next.
Today, I was reading about the gods and goddess of other religions and regions of the Earth. I questioned why so many religions are polytheistic and there are only a few that are monotheistic. My husband and I had a great discussion about it. We came to the conclusion that it had to do with metaphysics. It takes a deep philosophical leap to conceive of one God who created everything, and can be everywhere. It is actually much easier to attribute different aspects of nature to different gods because then you can actually conceive that god relating to only that one part of the world. It is much more difficult to relate to one God who relates to everyone and who knows all and who understands everything that is going on in the world. People have trouble with this one all the time. They can’t understand how God lets bad things happen to good people, how He lets a tornado destroy a town, or how He lets a evil man murder innocents. It is only by faith that I have learned to understand that God’s vision for us is far more reaching that anything I can conceive.
I take a leap of faith and know that I cannot understand God, but that I can choose to trust in Him anyway. That’s a difficult choice to make and there’s lots of people who aren’t willing or able to do it. I am here to show what I have learned, to be thankful for my life, and to share God’s love with as many people as I can. My message is simply to let others know that we aren’t alone.
My faith saved me. May God’s peace reside in all of our hearts.
