That is well spoken. We are all miracles, all special and yet not. I even regard an agnostic perspective a reasonable position to hold. As a child, faith and language was given to me. It was challenged when grandfather had his first heart attack. I experienced doubt to a degree not previously experienced. I am pretty sure that event happened around 14. I know it was El Paso, sometime between 1979 and 1982. I had a spiritual experience around that time, too- like being taken up out of body, experiencing light, calmness, and a voice that told me to be at peace, all was well.

you might imagine that after such an experience, i would never doubt again. By 18 I would declaring myself atheist, and by 21 back to center with agnosticism. I don't know how to say where I am now. I am spiritual doesn't cover the full reality of what I think I cover. I argue less from the agnostic side, but for years I maintained that. I take much of the ideas of afterlife from texts where the narrative from people under hypnosis seem to describe a reality that is consistent across a wide spectrum of people. Is it that? Well, that's faith, again, right?

My grandfather, the one mentioned above, told me when he had that heart attack, he found himself floating up, and moving away, and he described hearing church bells. He did not write this down. I asked to write it and he said he would get around to it, and didn't it. And he liked writing. So, his stories are just the memories I carry.

all the things I am writing now, I suppose my son will discover in the future his father was nuts, or the most interesting guy in the world! lol. He keeps telling me UFOs are not real.

and here we are, still and yet, we breathe the same oxygen that was breathed a million years ago. in this, you are much kinder than I, because I have quoted, someone, much courser, 'the water you're drinking now was the same water a dinosaur was troddling through, and fish urinated in..."

you're awesome