While I'm Thinking About It

I was asked about my reason to believe, like Bruce Springsteen's song,  "Reason to Believe"- “At the end of every hard-earned day / people find some reason to believe.”  If you are like most, why you believe can be a tough question to answer when you actually get down to putting it on paper. Many just muddle along, drawn by habit and circumstances, not really thinking about motivation or purpose. It is easy to have an intellectual answer, but far more difficult to engage soul searching to find a personal gut-level answer. You'd think it easy for me since my message is that God expects us to be "All In" as disciples, but it's not as easy as I thought it would be when I actually sat at the keyboard, beginning to type. There seems to be a place within me that is empty without God. As a younger man, I would have scoffed at such a simplistic notion, but now it is perfectly reasonable and a remarkably profound answer. I have found fulfillment living in God... and God actually li