If you look closely at the leaf you can see the leaf-cutter ants. Yesterday, Jessica and I went to Braulio Carrillo National Park. It was beautiful. The trees were old and covered in a green fuzz moss like material. The air was humid and moist. We sweated more than I have here, and afterward it rained! We got rained on in the rainforest. But one of the coolest things that we saw during our two hour hikes there, were the leaf-cutter ants. They followed our path, wove around it, and went into paths deep into the rainforest. Some of their paths were worn and old.

I had seen pictures of leaf-cutter ants in several books and heard different stories about them. But to see them beneath my feet with their bright piece of leaf held high above their heads...

it was good.

I have had some recent thoughts on God, and I wanted to share them. I wrote this on friday night.

I believe that God is all around us. That all around us is a deep beautiful energy full of love and goodness. I believe that everything in this world fits into this cycle of energy. I believe that we are born into it and gradually come to shut ourselves off from it as the years go by. Some people never do, and they are good for it. But we need this energy, this God, because we are it and it is us. It completes us and helps out lives in ways I cannot define. So when we open ourselves to it, we are made whole. Energy, love, God--the names mean the same.

So...I tried to write about why our lives become so much more richer and full when we have faith...but why? Does anyone have an answer?