The Unbelievable

It is not the believable we marvel at but the unbelievable. Take for instance the strength of an ant. How marvelously wild is it he can lift 1,000 times his weight! And the apple seed, seemingly so plain and simple, yet given time, soil and water soon sprouts, springing forth branches and leafs and eventually a basket full of more apples.

The familiar every day matters are the sturdiest amongst the unbelievable. How wheat is turned to bread, the stars are born, the sun rises and sets. More so, how the salmon fights upstream tirelessly to spawn and soon after die. The eagle, born out of an egg, soars to heights of over 10,000 feet. Man, once huddled around fire in his cave waiting on the dinosaurs to eat him. Today he tinkers with the idea of living on Mars. All of this, undeniably unbelievable.

No one can deny the unbelievable powers of love. Love makes a person do and think things thought not possible. Perhaps when Shakespeare wrote of “bounty as boundless as the sea” he was simply trying to say in layman’s terms “my love for you is unbelievable.”

The greatest of all things is life. And life is perhaps in itself the most unbelievable of all things.

If life was all believing there would be no unworked mine of wonder, no “Aha” moment, no uncorked bottle of something fantastic. Life would be boring. Start believing in the unbelievable. It is all around you.