It's hard to understand.

It's difficult getting our minds around spiritual things, isn't it. Today, we attended a funeral for a former co-worker. I didn't know Les when he worked with Forestry. I knew him only as a fellow Christian - outside of the workplace. Les experienced God in his life. We had quite a few chats about how God had sustained him throughout his illness and all the difficulties that life threw at him over these past several years.

I sat there in the service wondering what others were thinking about it all.....about what the pastor was saying about believing and knowing there is something much better after we die.

I know many would try to be reasoning it all out by saying that some people are simply strong people and can go through difficulties more easily than others and that Les just kind of took the bull by the horns and said "I can do this".............or to reason that some people are simply weak and need a crutch like "Christianity" to hang on to, as a good luck charm because they can't be strong in themselves.

Well, Les understood (as much as we humans can comprehend) that there is definitely another world out there. The Spirit world where reasoning takes a back seat to experiencing. Les experienced God. Can't explain it. Can't reason it out. Can't write it down or take it out for coffee with you. It's an experience.....of the heart.

It IS difficult to understand. How does one understand things one cannot see. How does one comprehend those experiences in life.....like being healed of a disease or a marriage that is mended back together, or of broken relationships with children being restored.

Yes, I agree, that usually it takes humility on our part to begin these painful but necessary processes but there are unseen powers and forces working to enable us, to help us along in life, to allow these things to happen. God is an unseen power, an unseen help in time of trouble, an unseen love that allows us to love those who are unlovable. It is God's unseen spirit that allows us to give sacrificially, it helps us to not be judgmental or critical, and it allows us to give a homeless guy our coat when he asks us.......well, not just our coat, but Jesus said we should give our sweater too.

Nope. I don't understand it. But like Les, I believe in it......with my whole heart, mind and soul.