Faith and Observation

Faith takes into account that which cannot be seen -- the unseen.

I think most of us can agree to that.  Thomas Edison seems to have had faith that he could invent a light bulb.  He had never seen one, but he could imagine it.  He could use what he did know to believe that he could invent what he could not yet see.

The life of faith is both irreverent and silly if it only deals with what cannot be seen.  Using the gift of observation given to each human person, and to clusters of human beings, we can build beyond what can be seen.  At no point does the Jesus spoken about in the New Testament assert that the gifts of God, including the gifts of observation, are bad, unnecessary or to be ignored. 

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