airs on NatGeo on Monday, January 30th. Titled \u201cProof of God\u201d, it explores the different ways God demonstrates a presence in people\u2019s lives. One of the things that was clear from the episode: when you go looking for God, God shows up. Sujo John prayed as one of the towers fell around him on 9\/11, and God showed up. Physicist Ard Louis discovers\u00a0God in relationships. And the Muslim calligraphist finds God in the craft of his art. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0
\nI find God in the stories I have collected over the years \u2014 both my own, and other people\u2019s. Stories like the three-year-old who fell out of a window and landed, unharmed, three stories down. The paramedics wanted to know how she hit the ground to assess her possible injuries: face up? Face down? On her side? So her mom \u2014 one of my oldest friends \u2014 \u00a0asked her: \u00a0\u2018What did you see when you fell?\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0
\nThe lady with the wings<\/span><\/i>, said her daughter. <\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0
\nThe lady with the wings<\/span><\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0
\nGod\u2019s voice comes to me in quiet moments. Sometimes it\u2019s the tiny whisper that a friend is calling one minute before my phone rings (this happens to me all the time). Sometimes it\u2019s a command to act. Sometimes it\u2019s just a love note: <\/span>I\u2019m glad you\u2019re paying attention.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
I may not be able to explain it. But when you experience it for yourself, you\u2019ll instantly know what I mean. You won\u2019t be able to explain it either, but we\u2019ll look each other in the eye, notice each other\u2019s spark, and remember where we come from. <\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
Can we actually prove God, though? Or does the very existence of God demand faith? Back in the garden, that darn tree of knowledge set us all into a life of missing the mark with God, and it\u2019s because we had more knowledge and less know how, too much understanding, but not enough wisdom. With that knowledge, we were now powerful enough to mess up the whole world, and mess it up we did.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
And so we get God in tiny little remembrances, memories of the way things were supposed to be. It\u2019s like they are imprinted on our souls, and in our rituals and activities and the way we seek God are tiny pieces of a big puzzle. We get God-snippets, tiny little moments of the divine. Sometimes they are external forces and others, they come from our deepest, most intimate created space. <\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
That\u2019s the place, I think, we\u2019re all trying to get back to \u2014 that place where God\u2019s Holy Spirit pulses with Her spark of the sacred. As Ard Louis says, and I paraphrase, the better we get to know God, the more our faith grows. <\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0
\nAnd the more our faith grows, the more, I think, we remember.<\/span><\/p>\n
\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
Be sure to check out The Story of God With Morgan Freeman this Monday, Jan 30th, on National Geographic.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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