This morning I had a hard time getting out of bed after a long day yesterday.  I resisted the impulse to stress and anxiety getting to church.  We got there in good spirits.   When my wife and children left for children's liturgy, a family slipped into their seats.  We did a good job of adapting with out forcing them out uncomfortably.  They were able enjoy their worship with us.  Our priest did something unusual for our parish when he called a young person being deployed into the military to the altar and had us raise our hands in prayer for her and family.  This was a special, deeply inspirational moment.

During the day we did a great job as a family managing our time and limiting our leisure media activities to specific intervals.  I was able to get all the kids to do housework and we did a great cleanup.  I got to practice baseball throwing with my son who has autism.

In the evening I got to go to a 12 step meeting with a friend.  We read from the chapter "We Agnostics" about our   closed mindedness towards the concept of a Higher Power and how it is reasonable to believe.  About how we were worshipers all along and that deep down within us is the fundamental idea of God.

Interestingly enough, when I came home I saw the program "Curiosity" asking the question of whether the universe needed a creator and thus, does God exist?  It ended with Stephen Hawking concluding that a creator could not exist because time did not exist and therefore a first "cause" could not exist.  I was very disappointed because the answers seem easy.

God transcends time, he is the "beginning and the end."
God transcends the laws of nature, at least those of this universe.
We are limited to testing and measurement of the properties of this universe, thus we can only justify God's existence through experience.
The law of cause and effect can only be grasped by experience, so when we experience belief and the consequent transcendence, we experience God.

Thanks be to God.