It’s hard to imagine how many of us fail to appreciate the gift of our eyesight. A good estimate would be – most of us. We become so accustomed to the ability to see that we fail to recognize the miracle that it is until we lose it.
Recently, there have been videos posted on the internet that show people who have received a new type of filtered eyeglasses. These glasses enable the wearers to see colors, perhaps for the first time in their lives.
The reaction of those who have had this experience is stunning.
Tears of joy flow. The receiver of these glasses scans a new world in wonder. They can’t believe what they have been missing. Some enlist others to help them associate the colors they see with the names of those colors – names they have heard but never saw what they referenced.
Once again, science comes through. Once again, science expands our abilities.
Perhaps the greatest lesson from advances in science is the awareness that our normal five senses are limited in the ability to observe the world we inhabit.
We have long known that the light spectrum is greater than what our eyes can register. Science has compensated by devising instruments that can detect what our eyes cannot see. Likewise, there are frequencies of sound that our ears cannot detect and odors that our noses cannot recognize. Just ask your dog.
Science continues to explore and discover these hidden signals, but there is a greater lesson to be learned.
Just because we are unable to detect something doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.
Stories abound of encounters with spirit beings or other paranormal incidents. This would seem to indicate that, on rare occasions, humans experience contacts beyond what we would consider to be normal. It also strongly suggests that there is a dimension of existence that we are unequipped to observe.
As we continue to apply logic to our analysis of those questions of life after death and the realm of existence beyond death’s veil, we have to consider this evidence.
If we doubt the existence of God and heaven, we need to recognize that our doubts are weakened by the hard-core evidence that there is more than that which our five senses can detect.
Perhaps it is our doubts that need to be challenged.
Perhaps the expression “seeing is believing” needs to be flipped. Perhaps the more accurate expression should be “believing is seeing.” It’s worth a try.