Got Morals?

I’ve been surprised by how much sense the concept makes to me and yet how little sense it makes to others, it being that morality requires the context of a transcendent higher power without which it can’t be. Once again, I envision a clear distinction between the moral, the ethical, and the legal. Because they are grounded in human norms and mores, ethics and legality essentially require nothing more than those who devise them. Morality, on the other hand, involves the whole which is greater than the sum of its parts. Legality is the concrete cousin of ethics which address how humans relate to one another. Morality, though, encompasses a totality of which humans are an integral part, but only a part. Morality entails being in harmony—in synchronicity, if you will—with the Cosmos. It follows that meaningful ethics and legality take morality into account, but that’s not reciprocal. In other words, something may be legal, even ethical, and yet immoral. Morality is the recognition of something greater than our selves. I keep reading about how we have lost our moral compass, and I agree. To restore our moral bearings, however, will not be the result of more laws and ethics but of reviving our relationship to God through genuine atonement.