An Answer
Happy New Year!
Let’s begin the year with one
of the big questions. No, not, “Why am I
here?” Instead, “Why am I a Christian?” I don’t believe I have ever attempted to answer
this directly. At the level of
intuition, it’s simple. But piecing it together,
articulating the intuition is too complicated. So, here’s an attempt to go
straight to simple.
I am a Christian first
because I am certain that god exists. That’s half the journey, the smaller
half. From there everything—nature,
civilizations, past and present events, human nature, etc.—opens up into one utterly
compelling question, “What is god like?”
There is an answer. God is Personal,
Powerful, Good. Experiencing this answer
is why I continue breathing.
That’s it. The rest is details. A great many details. All of them amazing. Some difficult. Many beautiful. All incomprehensible. So much more remains unknown. What is knowable resonates most fully in the worship
and teachings of Christians, of the historic Church. As I like to say, this is the God of Abraham,
Moses, David, the Virgin Mary and the Apostles.
Fountain of life, of goodness, of beauty.
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