November 16, 2024

Look at love. It’s pure faith. You can’t prove it in a lab, but it’s the most real thing in your life. And here’s the key, you know it’s faith, you know you can’t prove it and that doesn’t make it feel any less real, does it?

Watch what love’s faith does to changing your child’s dirty diaper. Same physical reality - you’re cleaning human waste. But through love’s alchemy, everything transforms. What one calls burden, another calls purpose.

Now strip away that faith. Look at love through pure materialism, just chemicals, just evolved instincts, just neurons firing. Your child’s laugh? Just biological responses. Your spouse’s touch? Just evolutionary programming.

Unsettling, right? Yet that’s how we’re living every other moment without faith. Just atoms moving. Just accidents. Just meaningless physics playing out. Barely human at all.

You already accept faith’s transformative power in love. You know how it makes you more fully human, how it makes a parent move mountains, cross oceans, give their life without hesitation.

Now imagine that everywhere. Following the logic of love’s transformative power, I’d imagine that’s what religious faith offers. Not just in love, but in everything. That same alchemy that transforms changing your child’s diaper into meaning, that same intensity that makes you willing to die for your child, touching every corner of existence.

You already believe in faith’s power. You live it every day through love. Religious faith just says why stop there? Why be human only in love when you could be fully human in everything?