A Sense of Wonder

One of the many things about God that I find so amazing is that He has given human beings the capacity to experience and appreciate, as well as create, beauty. No other creature on the face of the earth has that potential, and I think that's at least partly what God means when He says we are made in His image and likeness. He gave man five senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. Each sense can perceive beauty, and can participate in the creation of objects of beauty. God has given human beings the intellectual ability to create perfumes that are pleasant to smell, foods that taste good, art that is lovely to look at, and music that is beautiful to listen to, as well as material that is pleasing to the touch.

What I don't understand is how anyone can think that God doesn't exist, when all you have to do is look at the human body--at its incredible intricacies and systems and functions, from its smallest cells, to the organs that contain them, to the systems wherein the organs operate. And the whole body is greater than the sum of its parts, because it doesn't just function as an organism, but it functions as a living, breathing human being with consciousness and thought and free will, and the ability to laugh and to cry, to love and to hate, and to find meaning in life's events.

So the upshot of it is that everything about God is mysterious to me, but that's part of the fun of knowing Him--that I can never quite know Him. There's always some new aspect, some new mystery to uncover and discover about God.