Recently I was on an email thread that was discussing an MSNBC article, in which a scientist was claiming that Jesus may have walked on ice floating in the water, and not on the water itself. The thread was interesting in that several of the participants are PHD’s in subjectts like Chemistry, Nutrition, etc. The funny thing was that the article never questioned whether ice spontaneously floating in the middle of the dead sea, or that someone could actually balance on it in a raging storm, was a miracle or not.

However, what I really liked was what one of the people wrote:

As a scientist who thinks that evolution is pretty reasonable and does not really conflict with Genesis, I love the scripture in Proverbs 25:2. “It is the glory of God to conceal a matter; to search out a matter is the glory of kings.” I agree with [name deleted] on the ice: a miracle either way.

The God Squad is a Jewish Rabbi and Christian Monsignor (priest) that has a syndicated newspaper column that shows up every Thursday in our paper, the News and Observer. They answer religious/spirtual questions, and the view points of both the Jewish and Christian faiths brings a unique perspective to their answers.

This past week they had an answer that contained the following exerpt on faith that I really liked:

Rarely can you convince someone of the existence of God. Faith, for the most part, is more of the heart than the mind. We sometimes believe that if we put our faith in a loving God that this loving God will spare us from any pain. When faith is tested by setbacks, one either grows stronger in faith or runs away from faith.

True faith thanks God for each day. It makes time for prayer. It looks for the presence of God in life. It recognizes that some suffering is hard to understand and harder to figure out. When faith unites us with God, it creates a great peace, one that will last forever. When someone says there is no God, it should represent the beginning of a discussion, rather than the end.

I am much more of a “mind” person in everything exept my faith. And while I enjoy apologetics immensely, I always think the arguments just don’t cut it at some level. So when it comes to faith, I rely on my heart to tell me what is true, not my mind. Some, especially non-believers may view that as a weakness, but I view it as a feeling that there are some hings beyond what humans can know in this world.

And this answer from the God Squad really fits in with what I believe.

I think it’s time to expand the scope of this blog from just my knee to all the normal things I’ve written about, and perhaps add to that. I’ve had my “reading notebook” online since 2000, long before “blog” was a word:

http://www.2sparrows.org/Sean/read2005.htm

I’ve also posted my race reports and some of my favorite recipes, and recently I added things like bed and breakfast reviews and restaurant reviews. But editing html via something like dreamweaver, and posting it, is not nearly as easy as wordpress. So I am going to move in that direction, and perhaps start even more reviews on computer equipment and gadgets.

/Sean