My youngest brother, John, died this winter in South Dakota. The night before the funeral there was a freezing fog that frosted the trees in Belle Fourche with a crystalline white glaze: every branch of every tree etched in white. I\u2019ve never seen such beauty at such a time of sorrow.<\/p>\n
It took six of us \u2013 my other brother, my son, a cousin, John\u2019s daughter, her boyfriend and me \u2013 to get everything done in the short time before the funeral. We emptied out his apartment. We sold his car. We made arrangements with the funeral director. We met with the lawyer. We took care of his finances at the bank. We even retrieved the credit card I left at the steakhouse.<\/p>\n
Everything seemed to fall into place. We had only one thing left to do before heading to Rapid City and the airport: return a 40-year-old pickup truck to its final resting place at our family ranch in Wyoming.<\/p>\n
Maybe because everything had gone so well we didn\u2019t think to check the weather.<\/p>\n
My brother and son drove the airport rental car, while my cousin and I followed in the pickup. The ranch is about 20 miles from Belle Fourche, the last five on a road that isn\u2019t really a road at all \u2013 just tire tracks and ruts. As we approached the ranch, the rental car got stuck in the snow that had drifted over the ruts in the road.<\/p>\n
The pickup bed was bare of shovels, chains or the other necessities required to pull a car out of the snow. We found a board and a broken ratchet strap. Everything we tried produced the same result: wheels spinning in the snow.<\/p>\n
The temperature dropped into the 20s before the snow began falling. The sky darkened into dusk.<\/p>\n
The rental car stayed stuck about an hour.<\/p>\n
And the reality sank in: This is serious. It\u2019s that moment when the father driving the RV realizes he took the wrong turn in a national forest and is hopelessly lost. It\u2019s the couple in New York City for the first time who find themselves after dark in the wrong part of town.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m not suggesting we were all about to die \u2013 just that the possibility seemed real. And when that happens, you become acutely aware of your mortality.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I\u2019m not suggesting we were all about to die \u2013 just that the possibility seemed real. And when that happens, you become acutely aware of your mortality.<\/p>\n
So when the improbable happened \u2013 when the ratchet strap hooked to the pickup bumper and tied to the hatchback hook of the rental car held and the pickup pulled the rental car backwards \u2013 your acute awareness of your mere mortality can\u2019t help but morph into wonder: What just happened?<\/p>\n
Maybe it was just dumb luck. If we were unlucky to get stuck, it just might be luck that we became unstuck.<\/p>\n
Or it might have been something else. I am not religious, but you can\u2019t experience something like this without feeling something miraculous just happened. My mind went not immediately to God, but to my deceased brother John.<\/p>\n
I wasn\u2019t alone. As we were driving back to Belle Fourche, three deer appeared on the side of the road, ran alongside us for a bit and then disappeared. My cousin evoked the spirits of the dead \u2013 my brother, father and grandmother.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was John, your dad and Dolly,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
This was not a moment of religious conversion for me, but it made me wonder why I felt as a non-believer something akin to divine intervention.<\/p>\n
I found something of an explanation in a book by a religion scholar who wrote God: A Human History<\/em>: We are hardwired as a species to believe that there is something bigger and more everlasting than ourselves.<\/p>\n
\u201cBelief in the soul as separate from the body is universal,\u201d Reza Aslan writes. \u201cIt is our first belief, far older than our belief in God. It is the belief that begat God.\u201d<\/p>\n
The problem is we are also hardwired to impose human characteristics on the Almighty. Our own self-centeredness creates a God totally fascinated by our puny lives.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhether we are aware of it or not, and regardless if we are believers or not, what the vast majority of us think about when we think about God is a divine version of ourselves,\u201d Aslan writes.<\/p>\n
But Aslan offers another theory of why we evoke God at times such as this. He contends that God and the world are not separate, but the same. Everything that exists embodies God \u2013 including ourselves.<\/p>\n
\u201cConsider the possibility that the entire reason we have a cognitive impulse to think of God as a divine reflection of our selves is because we are, every one of us, God,\u201d he writes. \u201cPerhaps rather than concerning ourselves with trying to form a relationship with God, we should instead become fully aware of the relationship that already exists.\u201d<\/p>\n
What he suggests is that God at work doesn\u2019t come from above but from within.<\/p>\n
I can\u2019t believe what happened out there in the snow was proof of an all-knowing, all-seeing, interventionist God. But I also can\u2019t believe that nothing happened. Something inexplicable, maybe miraculous, possibly spiritual, happened.<\/p>\n
Much time has passed since that night. But the feeling hasn\u2019t left me. Like the trees trimmed in white, I witnessed something wondrous.<\/p>\n
Jeff Kunerth<\/em><\/strong> is a faculty member in UCF\u2019s Nicholson School of Communication and Media. He can be reached <\/em>at <\/em>Jeff.Kunerth@ucf.edu<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n
The\u00a0UCF Forum<\/strong>\u00a0is a weekly series of opinion columns from faculty, staff and students who serve on a panel for a year. A new column is posted each Wednesday on <\/em>UCF Today<\/em><\/a> and then broadcast on WUCF-FM (89.9) between 7:50 and 8 a.m. Sunday. (<\/em>A podcast of this column is available on the radio station\u2019s website.<\/em><\/a>) Opinions expressed are those of the columnists, and are not necessarily shared by the University of Central Florida.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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