For a long time I have been searching for the Truth; irrefutable proof that the Christian God exists. I've always known, deep down in my heart, that the Christian God is the truest God of all, but I wanted to prove it was true through foolproof argument and irrefutable logic.
For this entire semester I have been almost bogged down by this. I spent most of my quality time with myself in the shower mulling over the issue.
Then, someone asked me how I would want God/Jesus to prove that He was who He claimed to be. My answer was that God/Jesus would tell me something so wise and true that I would know immediately that he was who he claimed to be. But this raised the question, how would I know that what was said was a Great Truth of Life? Perhaps it could be because it was so obvious, yet so unreachable by leaps of mortal logic. Perhaps I would know because I would feel it with my heart.
Then, I realised what a grave error I had made. I should have trusted my heart, in the same way I woud trust my heart to recognise a Truth when I heard it. There is plenty of evidence that the Christian God is true, but no human evidence or understanding can be complete. In the end, I have to use my heart to tell me what's right and good and true.
[Edit (28/11/2011): Now I've realised that God indeed did talk to us through His Word. Jesus himself spoke many home truths that revealed His deep understanding of the world, and how we are to live in it.]
A chronicle of nose growth
'...changing the form of one's mission's almost as difficult as changing the shape of one's nose:
they are, each, in the middle of one's face and one's character - one has to begin too far back.'
― Henry James. The Portrait of a Lady.
