From the Daily Advance
Belief in the Force takes faith
by Jim Bridges
Think about the stem of a
rose. Now, imagine that stem as a green fuse. Then assume that there is
a force which drives the rose through the green fuse and causes the
rose to explode. That same force drives me from my green youth to
hoary-headed age.
The same force “drives the water throughout
the rocks” (rocks in the mountains, those underground, and those in the
beds of streams) and drives the blood through my arteries, veins, and
capillaries — all of my blood through all of those pipes.
That
same Force eventually destroys the trees and turns my blood to wax. It
makes all things and destroys all things. It causes dirt to spurt up
into the air and assume the size, shape and color which causes us to
say, “rose,” “azalea,” “dogwood.” Each year, the Force causes the right
leaves and fruits and berries and theories to appear in the proper
places.
The Force causes humans to think they think their own
thoughts and forget that it is the Force which causes humans to bear
ideas as surely as it is the Force which causes bushes to conceive
berries. The Force rains and snows, it grows the orchid and the rose,
it sculpts the universe and your toes. It even creates those people who
say that they don’t believe in the Force.
A bumper sticker
says, “God made me an atheist. Who are you to question his judgment?” I
say it is easier to believe in God than to believe out of God. The more
you believe, the more in God you are, andthe most abundantly you can
have life and love your neighbor as yourself and “live and move and
have your being.”
Thomas Paine said that the only sensible
meaning humans can attach to “God” is “the First Cause,” the cause of
all effects which have followed through all the eons. It is 10 times
easier to believe in the Force, the First Cause, than it is to explain
all the berries and people and ideas in any other way.
JIM BRIDGES
Elizabeth City
MAIL
The Editor
The Daily Advance
P.O. Box 588
Elizabeth City, N.C., 27907-0588
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