I can't say why "people" believe in God.

I know why I do.

God gave me a Miracle* but I believed before that.

I was born into the Jewish faith. We were Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur Jews.

Even as a child I always thought it was strange that a Jew believed in God, 'someone' you could not see feel, hear, or touch, but not in Jesus, someone you could not see hear, feel, or touch.

When I was in my 40's I went through the conversion process and Christianity became my faith.

But that has nothing to do with why I believe in God.

And I think God does not believe in me only because I am now a Christian in my belief.

I believe because I see the flowers come back every year where a few months before there was snow and dead trees.

I believe because although we all have a mouth, a nose, and 2 eyes they are somehow able to be different enough on each of us that we are able to recognize one person from another.

I believe because we have the intelligence to think up cars, and computers, and medical devices.

I believe because I can't find my keys and then there they are.

I believe because it just makes more sense to me that many of the things that have happened in my life could not have happened by circumstance.

I believe God does the Good. I haven't decided yet who does the Bad.

Most of all I believe because, well, because I do.

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I have trigeminal neuralgia, a facial pain disorder also as "the worst pain known to man." and "The suicide disease."

For me it was the latter.

The trigeminal nerve allows you to have sensation in your face. For those with trigeminal neuralgia the sensation is pain. Horrendous, life destroying pain.

My pain was constant in the left upper side of my face. It was also sporadic. The pain would come out of the blue and smack me in my left temple. It was like a lightning bolt hitting me and burrowing a thin line through my face. A slight breeze or a wisp of hair could also set it off.. Wind, cold, and bright sun became my enemies; fearsome and loathsome, because they too caused tremendous pain.

It was only one half of one half of my face but it totally disabled me.

Once I was diagnosed, a process of many painful tests and drug trials and then the neurosurgery highway..

The first operation stopped the pain. For three months.

The next brain surgery and the next and the next, six all told, did not help.

I suffered terrible side effects including a complete paralysis

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