The More I trust god, the less invisible he becomes

​1 Corinthians 2:9 says, "Eye has not seen, ear has not heard, nor has it so much as dawned on man what God has prepared for those who love him."

For those who share my faith, I imagine they would say that's where the "mystery" of our faith begins.

For those who don't share it, I imagine they would say that's where the irrationality or complete lunacy of our faith begins.

Frankly, I can subscribe to both characterizations. As a believer, I can say it is both a mystery and completely irrational to fully launch on the ocean of trusting the invisible.

The definition of rational is: based on reason or logic. It's hard to find much reason or logic in something that's never been seen or experienced before.

I've lived a rational life. I've lived life confined by only trusting the things I can see and can be explained. I'm not the only one. I've lived life demanding answers. I've lived life needing to know exactly how this will work out before I take the next step. I've lived life hanging out with people and trusting them only after I've run them through a comprehensive background check.

I've learned a couple of things living that rational life.

One, rational is relative. What's rational and logical to one isn't so rational and logical to another.

And two, today's known can quickly become tomorrow's unknown and vise versa.

We are in a time when so many knowns, things we've been able to see and feel and touch and trust in, so many of those things have been dismantled.

You have to go to school to be educated. You have to go to church to experience church. The restaurant I go get my fish at every Friday night for 20 years will always be open to serve me. The healthy family member or friend I know and love will always be there.

One thing I think this pandemic has taught us to at least some degree is, for us all to experience life at it's fullest, we have to launch on the ocean of trusting the unknown and the unseen and the irrational.

Maybe for you that's not God. I completely get it. God's just the invisible part of my life that's made so many previously unseens and irrationals and nonsensicals make sense.

The irony for me there is, the more I trust in God, the more he becomes less invisible to me.

But we're all in a spot where moving forward in life requires doing so without all the answers. Doing so requires leaning into experiences that are unfamiliar and previously invisible to us. Doing so requires us to consider that sometimes lunacy is the most sane and opportunistic direction in our lives.

Lest you think this is another of the countless opinions out there about when and how and where to "open up" our country, it is not.

This is a deeper reflection on when and how and where to open up my life, and how sometimes allowing the possibility of the invisible might launch me on a very visible and trusting journey I once thought was impossible. One I see a beauty in life I once thought was completely irrational to imagine.