Mark 6:52
For they considered not the miracle of the loaves: for thier heart was hardened.
The disciples were there. They saw Christ feed thousands in a miraculous way, yet, they “considered it not.”
They did not notice!
Or maybe they explained it away.
In his essay, “Religion and Science,” Einstein wrote…
“The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious.
It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.
He who knows it not and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead.”
–Albert Einstein, 1930
So, according to Einstein, the “cradle of true science” is to experience the “emotion” of the “mysterious.”
That is, we should notice what we cannot understand.
Without that, we are “as good as dead.”
Here’s the secret that Einstein knew…
You ready?
We cannot explain any of it!
Nothing.
We are only describing and naming. That’s all.
Describing is still worth doing. That’s what e = mc^2 is: a description.
When you study science in this way, with wonder, your study becomes a form of worship. That idea was the point of Einstein’s essay, Cosmic Religion.
The layperson, and even some scientists, think science has figured out the mechanisms of the universe. And it’s all just that, a mechanism without a force behind it, without any mystery.
But, Einstein argued that the true scientist knows we are only naming and describing, not explaining. The formulas for gravity or for momentum and inertia do not explain, only describe.
Think that I’m stretching it?
Richard Feinman won a Nobel Prize in physics. Here he is talking about the same idea of wonder as it was described to him by his father, and confirmed by him later as a scientist<–
So, the disciples missed the miracle of Jesus feeding thousands.
And sometimes, I wake up and miss the miracles too–the miracle of it all.
Of it ALL.
I miss the miracle of the breath that goes in and out of my throat, of movement and thought, of my ability to read these words and to make love to my wife and to hold my grandson, who is part me and part a thousand other people who came before him.
So, yes, I would have missed the miracles of Jesus occasionally, just like his disciples did.
But not today.
Today, I will enjoy the “emotion of the mysterious,” notice the miracles, and especially give reverence to the miracle called my body and to my health and the invisible Force that sustains it all.
That’s it.
Just notice.
1-3-5 Plan
1 Fast 1 day/wk & 1wk/season
3 Walk 3 miles/d
5 Eat 5 fruits or vegetables; read 5 pages of the Bible
Bible Reading of the Day
Mark 6-9
Virtue of the week: Resolution-resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
Hope this helps.
Peace & health,
Charles
Charles Runels, MD
365 Health Strategies
