HEAVEN BOUND

I’m not going to heaven.  But I’m OK with that because I don’t believe that heaven exists.  Christians, on the other hand, do believe in heaven.  After all, isn’t that the point of the salvation story: A reversal of the finality of death and an opportunity for eternal happiness, regardless of the challenges, pain, and disappointments of this life?

DO YOU BELIEVE IN MAGIC?

Do you believe in magic?

As children we all start out believing in magic.  This is because we haven’t yet learned the rules by which the world operates.  We begin to lose our belief in magic as we gain experience with the regularity of nature and as we discover that reality may be different from what our senses are telling us.  It is through this process that most of us eventually learn that what is portrayed as magic is really an illusion, a deception, simply a trick.  

But not everyone.  Some continue to believe in magic, to believe that certain individuals are able to override the otherwise universal laws of nature, either because they possess a special power or because they are able to channel a power possessed by a supernatural agency, and if the supernatural agency is for good, they call it a miracle.  Otherwise they simply call it magic.