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Is God Dead?
If someone asked if you live in an enchanted world, what would you say? I ask because, lately, we have approached the mystical realm, considering the evidence from terminal lucidity, near-death experiences, and religious experiences to support an argument for the existence of the human soul and its capacity to engage with a higher dimension. Somewhat selfishly, I ask the question because I sometimes struggle with the reality of living in an enchanted world. In fact, sometimes the world feels so very disenchanted. Sometimes the ministering spirits, and the Spirit of God Himself, feel so very far away, and so very, silent.
When I was a child, in bed late at night, sometimes I would ask God to just flicker the light switch, just for a second so that I would know. It would be our secret, “just flicker the light, just for a moment.” Of course, I didn’t realize it at the time, but what I was asking God to do was to enchant my world. I was asking God to make His supernatural presence so apparent that there could be no way not to know that He was there, that He was listening. That He cared about me. I might as well have asked: “Father, enchant my world,” because that was really what I was asking for: “By angel or spirit or by your own hand, flicker the light, and enchant my world!” But He didn’t. And since He didn’t flicker the light in my childhood bedroom, I wondered if He really heard me. More than that, sometimes, I wondered if He existed at all. I’m not saying that over the years since God has never made His presence known to me; He has. Rather, I am saying that day by day, I am working to open my eyes— working to see the spirit of God everywhere and in everything—all day, every day. I’m looking to see the enchantment that is in the world around me. I am looking to see the beauty of God in the sunrise, to see the power of God in the heat of the sun, to see the benevolence of God in the food that I eat, and the air that I breathe. The ever-presence of God’s divine providence. And more and more I am aware that I am living in an enchanted world. And this I know to be true. If you will bear with me, I would like to tell you a story.
