Some Things Are True

City of Angels is an amazing movie. Hands down. Life as an endless series of doubts and realizations. Meg Ryan plays Maggie, a cold, detached, rock star of a heart surgeon. However, when her patient dies despite her best efforts she falls beautifully apart. She meets Nicholas Cage’s character, Seth. He consoles her. He comforts her. He falls in love with her. Then he tells her he’s an angel. She says she can’t conceive of it. He replies,

“Some things are true whether you believe them or not.”

She says she can’t conceive of it. Much stronger words than liar, or no way. She can’t conceive of it.

There are so many things in this world I cannot conceive of: starving children, religious war, planes that fly around the globe against all evidence of gravity, but still they are real, they exist whether I can see them or not. There are wonderful things that exist too, things I can see so why not things I cannot?

Is this a post about God? Not necessarily. But it may be a post about faith. Having faith in a future you cannot see. Having faith in yourself, your abilities, how about faith that your instincts are correct? I believe these things whether I can see them or not.

What do you believe in that you cannot see?