First post - "Really"

Here is the first post for my blog.

I am going to write about spiritual things, so if that offends you, don't read them!

To start with one basic idea, I don't believe the world can be broken into the "natural" and the "supernatural." There is only "reality."

Science is not the only, not even the best way, to know reality. You need things like imagination, and character. We have to become people who *can* know reality (even scientists must be trained).

Knowing reality is ultimately impossible without reality's creator - God. Our ability to see reality is limited to our senses without God's help. But the Real that is beyond our senses is not unrelated to the Real our senses can experience. It is all one "Reality." The material world is infused with the "spiritual."

We refer to the bread and the wine of Holy Communion as sacraments. This is because in their own reality, they carry the reality we cannot taste with our tongue. Indeed, a "outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace." Over time I will have more to say about how this is so.

But now I want to say that I believe that this is true for all of Creation. I am not talking pantheism. God remains transcendent. But Creation ministers to us God's grace. God [I am going to try to refrain from using the masculine pronoun, mostly to remind us that God IS transcendent] made it good, he made it for his own purpose, but also made it to bless us.

I will need to say about the goodness of Creation later.