Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will not believe.
(John 4:48)
We are a people who have entrusted so much to the power of the computer. So much so that we might often expect faith to have a fact-like response when we seek to know God's will for the life we should live. Because we cannot press a specific key on the computer keyboard to know what God wants from us, do we allow our spiritual life to suffer a slow, lonely death? Because it is a slow process of discovery that builds a spiritual life that becomes a genuine satisfaction, we can so easily fail to see the moments that are the stepping stones to that enjoyment. Again, our computer speed and the instantaneous nature of modern communications can leave the building of a spiritual life lost in the dust! No work of art, no one precious human being, no beautiful flower, no skilled athlete came into being in a second or a nanosecond! The spiritual life demands time -- just like the cup of tea steeping on the small table beside me. The spiritual life is like the sunrise of each morning. Rays of sunshine are a renewal of God's promise that he is always present to help us see, to help us understand, to help us open our ears to his whispers in the rooms we call our hearts and souls. In these sacred spaces we are challenged to believe because belief rarely, if ever, is an instantaneous event. Any seed planted required nurturing.
