Think About Faith

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At this holy time of year, it is natural to think about our faith. 

While travel may not seem directly connected to religion, the ship's officer who served as lay minister for a non-denominational congregation of cruisers in the Explorer's Lounge on a recent cruise reinforced that we should live our lives with gratitude, especially when traveling.

After all, only 1% of the world's population can afford to travel for pleasure.

 Sometimes, we may want a deeper religious experience while traveling. 

As common heirs of our Western Civilization heritage, most of us find it hard to beat a Holy Lands cruise for that purpose. 

Frequently, cruises to Israel, where we can visit many sites we read about in the Bible or Torah since childhood, are combined with the Greek Isles, where Western Civilization's foundation of reason was born. 

 This dual heritage of Judeo-Christian morality and Greek logic have often seemed incompatible, as when Galileo was forced to recant what his research found to be true.

More recently, however, advances in sciences like quantum physics seem to bring us back to appreciation of the miracles of the physical world where it turns out that mass is to a great extent actually mostly space and energy between tiny particles we can't see with the naked eye. 

Maybe its time to reconsider what you believe and recapture the amazement of youth. 

A cruise is a great place to start.