Religion Reminds Me A Lot of Email

I have a thought that I think of every so often. And, today while I was driving along by myself, listening to a Christian song on my iPod, I got to thinking about my thought again.

My thought that I have from time to time is that I’m not sure how people get through life without some type of religion or faith. Sure, I know that there are plenty of people who do. I just can’t understand it, and it even scares me to think of living my life without faith in God. (I’m not even referring to just the Christian faith, I’m just talking about any religious faith.) I need God. I need to be able to cry out to Him when I’m hurt. And, I need to be able to give thanks to Him when things are going well. I just need Him. And, I think sometimes when there is something in your life that you need so much that it hurts, it’s hard to imagine that other people can live without it.

I’ll be really honest — it’s not a matter of trying to be judgmental. But, that has always tripped me up. Every time I have this thought, I think that perhaps I’m just being judgmental, and if people don’t want to practice a religion, then that’s just what they’re going to do with their freewill, and it’s not for me to say otherwise.

That’s when it finally came together for me — right there in the van. I realized that it’s a lot like email.

I wake up in the morning, and I have to check my email. I check my email throughout the day. I know that there are a lot of other people just like me. I know this, in particular, because of all the email I get. It seems like everyone I know has email.

But, every so often, I say to someone, “Oh, let me email you that. Can I have your email address?” And they say, “I don’t have email.” Have you ever been in that situation? Can you actually stop yourself before you say aloud, with a touch of horror in your voice, “You don’t have email?”

Some people don’t think they need email. Maybe they really don’t. To me, email makes my life easier and better. I can’t imagine not having it.

Maybe Jesus won’t appreciate me comparing Him to email. But, it just clicked to me today, and it gave me some tiny way of wrapping my mind around something that was difficult for me. I need my faith because it makes my life easier and better. I have lived during a dark time where I didn’t really feel like I was close to God, and believe me, my life is so much better with Him than it is without Him.

Perhaps some people really can live without email, and some people can also live without having faith in some higher power. As for me, I don’t think I couldn’t imagine life without either one of them. But, with as much as I check my email everyday, I can say without hesitation that if I had to choose only one — that email would be gone in the blink of an eye.

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