Mysteries are often lying around, all over the place, waiting to be discovered and understood. Mysteries, to my mind are real and true, not inventions of human imagination. The marvelous creatures being discovered on Facebook are stories, not mysteries, unless you want to consider the story tellers motivations. I love the one of the shark leaping out of the water after the man on the helicopter ladder.

Lightening and electricity were mysteries until they came to someone’s notice and began to be revealed in understanding. I wonder how the few who realized the mystery and undertook understanding were elected for the job. Everyone was affected, but only a few saw the mystery and accepted the challenge of discovery.

Faith is like that, lying around waiting for discovery and to challenge the believer. It affects everyone, and everyone finds a way to express faith or things to believe. The questions is “why” faith: because all men worship something? because of the desire for faith to support our point of view, or because faith has discovered the greater who has the wisdom and power to correct and change – overcome the limitations of man, humanity, and world? There is always faith, even to trust that a chair won’t collapse under you. Faith is everywhere like fall leaves on the ground or spring leaves on the trees. The why is the challenge, truth of the one who creates lightening or less, the impact and control of lightening by men.

I had a student who was a professing Wiccan. I was stunned because he was such a sharpe person, so I asked him why he worshiped the creation instead of the creator. He laughed because he was doing it to aggravate someone who was an authority in his life. We prayed together to the creator. Faith can have nefarious purposes and is determined by the believer.