Have a Little Faith!

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof

~ Khalil Gibran ~

So here I sit - on the computer, trying to concentrate on what I'm working on but in the other room someone is watching a documentary about NDEs (near death experiences).  Of course I can hear it and it's peaked my curiosity.  I just don't understand why scientists feel they have to have an explanation or proof for every single thing.

What I find amusing is that these proof-seeking scientists blame NDEs on everything from dreaming to drugs to pre-trauma suggestions to weird happenings in the brain yet they can prove none of that either!  By the same token, I don't believe that any of them have disproven the reality that NDEs exist either.  I just don't understand why it's so hard for some people to believe in something that they can't prove.  They would rather look for reasons to believe (or maybe NOT believe) than to just have faith that something greater than they can imagine has happened.

Here's what I find to border on the ridiculous:  we are told that billions of years ago, something exploded in space (the big bang?) that created something that evolved into something that evolved into something else that... well, you see where that's going.  Anyway, every single thing that happened after that supposed 'bang' came together and fit like a glove.  The entire world and everything on it is pieced together with such minute precision that the odds of  it ever happening are astronomical.  Um, excuse me, but doesn't believing that also require faith?  I mean, is there unequivocal, undeniable, unfaltering and unimpeachable proof of that 'big bang'?  That's easier to believe (or have faith that it's true) than that a divine being created everything with a purpose and a plan?  Yeah, right.  I think that when a person wants to find a reason to not believe something, they'll find that reason.

Since I'm on the subject of believing that which you can't prove, I just don't get atheists.  I can understand believing in different dieties but to believe in none?  How sad that must be!  What must the reason for living be for those who have no faith in something greater than themselves?

Obviously, the faith I'm talking about is the faith in that something or someone greater than ourselves but there's also other kinds of faith.  Doesn't it require a certain amount of faith to love and trust another person?  Doesn't it require a certain amount of faith to plan for the future?

Faith is one of our greatest God-given gifts - after love, of course.  How can anyone not embrace it with all that they are?  And really, what are we without faith?  Personally, I'm glad I don't know.