believe there is something more to life than what they see around them. Human life adds up to more than the sum total of people’s ability to explain themselves.
There is something in the centre – at the heart – that demands explanation. And people need an explanation that takes account of the spiritual reality that they still believe and experience to be the most important thing about themselves.
Surveys consistently show that most people in Britain still believe in God (though who or what God might be is not clear) and still pray regularly. Along with this goes a whole panoply of other beliefs and practices. Acknowledging that something is missing, people either start a spiritual search, or become beguiled and fascinated by spiritual things. Hence the growing interest in everything from horoscopes and yoga to pantheism, reincarnation, crystals and tarot cards. Far from being on the wane, we live in a culture where fascination with all things spiritual appears to be on the increase. And all this in a supposedly rational and scientific age.
Even if you are not one of those people who look for meaning and purpose in life through that growing pot-pourri of New Age spiritualities, and this is increasingly the case among the young, you have a spiritual dimension to life (even if you don’t use the word) because you experience love and joy and sadness and, yes, even the darker experiences of greed and hatred. And if you are a spiritual seeker, then that is good: because there is a spiritual meaning to life and the pulse of this dimension can be felt in all things that are good and true. But, even if you are not, these things demand an explanation.
My explanation is simple: human beings are made in the image of God. This does not mean that God looks like us, but that the feelings and thoughts that are the foundation of our own understanding of ourselves have their origin in God. People, as it were, reflect back to God the consciousness and creativity out of which they are created.
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