Does a higher power exist only when we need it?
Has it ever happened to you that you found yourself in dire straits and started to pray or turn to some god, the universe, life - even though otherwise you are not religious at all? It happened to me a few times when I was a child, and in our family no one was religious and I wasn't taught to be either. I think that even then I recognized that there was a higher power, but I was only aware of it in difficult moments. I think that many Westerners are oriented in such a way that we spend most of our time very individualistically focused on ourselves, but when something bad happens to us, we begin to turn our attention to the higher forces… (click on the image above for the full post)