Thursday, May 11, 2006
Miracle talk
Heard you talking cautiously about miracle claims . Sounds reasonable, considering the apparent euphoria around what has happened around Beaconsfield .
Struck by the fact that for me ( and think most ) the sense of miracle is very personal. A sort of wonderful thing in itself – a bit like the warmth in the pants effect , that is not welcomed so much by others?
Nothing hits you when you have a sense of miracle than the difficulty of explaining it to others – after all its your experience ---at least in large measure .And we forget and doubt quite naturally .
The best examples I know of are ones where the miracle happened to someone I know and I share a sense of wonder greater than they do about all the coincidences .
One day I’ll put a few in writing
BUT I am in a sense of wonder that the one who could tweak the nuons and quarks should do it with such incredible precision as to be so personal. Is not the testimony of experience of humans that we are made our Creator’s image ?
Either way, I think JUST like the blind man Jesus healed , most did not want to know .Despite being loud and getting lots of people to defend him and share his knowledge , the wider elements of audience wanted to shut him up . Somethings in the media are very predictable . The challenge is to avoid focusing on them alone ! After all the lowest common denominator is not good science either
Remember too, that our secular prophets say we are after all in denial about determinism --and rightly so – there is a lot of things to wonder about ----- if you are prepared not to close the door of the mind / heart on them.
Heard you talking cautiously about miracle claims . Sounds reasonable, considering the apparent euphoria around what has happened around Beaconsfield .
Struck by the fact that for me ( and think most ) the sense of miracle is very personal. A sort of wonderful thing in itself – a bit like the warmth in the pants effect , that is not welcomed so much by others?
Nothing hits you when you have a sense of miracle than the difficulty of explaining it to others – after all its your experience ---at least in large measure .And we forget and doubt quite naturally .
The best examples I know of are ones where the miracle happened to someone I know and I share a sense of wonder greater than they do about all the coincidences .
One day I’ll put a few in writing
BUT I am in a sense of wonder that the one who could tweak the nuons and quarks should do it with such incredible precision as to be so personal. Is not the testimony of experience of humans that we are made our Creator’s image ?
Either way, I think JUST like the blind man Jesus healed , most did not want to know .Despite being loud and getting lots of people to defend him and share his knowledge , the wider elements of audience wanted to shut him up . Somethings in the media are very predictable . The challenge is to avoid focusing on them alone ! After all the lowest common denominator is not good science either
Remember too, that our secular prophets say we are after all in denial about determinism --and rightly so – there is a lot of things to wonder about ----- if you are prepared not to close the door of the mind / heart on them.
