The Truth of the Matter

As you read these words, take the time to ponder what a truly miraculous thing is happening. In this time and place, you do not merely exist—which of itself is a miracle no one is capable of duplicating on a cosmological scale—but you are actually experiencing the existence by way of sentient prehension. In other words, these odd characters come together to create an experience that transcends that time and space in which it was created. Think about that for a moment before allowing yourself to ask the question, where does experience come from? In this current age which is so enamored (and justifiably so) with scientific empiricism, we have the MRIs and CATscans to reveal the physiological workings of the brain, but when all is said and done no one is yet in a position to empirically quantify or qualify experience. And again, even when we are able to (I don’t doubt that time is coming) we still will be no closer to knowing where the something that is everything comes from, particularly on the cosmological scale. I have no quarrel with the Big Bang explanation of the origin of the universe, but I sincerely doubt that there will ever be a satisfactory explanation of where the Big Bang came from in the first place. Likewise, I have no quarrel with the theory of evolution because once you fill in the gaps and missing links of the tree of life you will still be left with the question of what started it all. It is this metaphysical First Cause which incomprehensibly attempts to explain the something that is everything, which leads me to wonder why we search so diligently for the very thing which makes it possible for us to experience in the first place. Yes, I know. The impersonalness of it all is stupefying. And yet, if you have really stopped to think at all about what’s going on as you read these words, you become aware of the Source that is not just personal but intimately so as it experiences in, by, and through you. Therefore, I have no problem saying that without God I am nothing, because I don’t have a problem with the Truth.