Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Perception...and beauty...and God

Had a conversation with a kindred spirit yesterday regarding atheists. She has a friend who picks at her about her faith and I subscribe to and read several blogs penned by atheists and a few by agnostics. We Christians want everyone to have the love found in Christ that we know is real. Only thing is, the atheists and agnostics really don't care too much about all that because of the "frailty" of the unseen. It's tough for some to see past the non-physical/tangible. If they only knew.

Just now I read this blog post written by one of my favorite bloggers, a died-in-the-wool Texan transplanted by love & marriage to Great Britain.
This is what I love about humanity. A person who doesn’t believe in the divinity of the Bible, who is not a Christian or any religion, can go to ancient beautiful Christian churches and feel the presence of what she perceives as God, but that is surely very foreign from the idea of God that the people who built the church had in mind. And it doesn’t matter, which is the wonderful point. This happened to me in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome last year and it happened again (on a smaller scale) at Winchester Cathedral this weekend. via
"...very foreign from the idea of God that the people who built the church had in mind."

I'm not so sure she's right on that thought. It's the relationship we Christians have with the God she's unsure of that urges us on to great beauty, whether through incredible architecture as seen in Winchester Cathedral, the adoption of an orphan from Liberia, or to the well drilled to give clean water in Christ's name.

Sure, anyone can do those things, but it's the change that is made in us by doing the deeds because it's part of the following that makes the believing real.

I also think...pray... that the presence she perceives is God just might very well be Him whispering her name - personally.

1 comment:

amy said...

beautifully said