I came across a funny story earlier this week... 

A South Florida woman said she was cooking fried salami when she noticed the word "GOD" on the meat, Miami television station WFOR reported.  Nancy Simoes said she had three pieces in a skillet and flipped one of them and saw the letter G.  "Then got the O and I thought to myself how cool will it be if the third letter was a D."

Simoes realizes people may think she's crazy.  "I can't make this up. ... it's there in the burn marks." For 20 years, her family has enjoyed fried salami for breakfast. Now Simoes is wondering how she will preserve the "holy" salami. 

Martin and I had a good laugh over Nancy and her holy salami. The things people do to get themselves on television, I thought.

But then I thought again.

I’m laughing at poor Nancy. Yet, after years of Christian-bashing atheism, I have come to believe that a creator God allowed the sacrifice of his own son to redeem the sin-fallen human beings He created in His own image...and He did it in order to redeem them back to Himself. As if that’s not enough, I also believe in a holy spirit of God that comforts and counsels me and I seek guidance in the pages of a book that I believe is alive. 

Taking off my believer-since-2003 hat and putting on the this-stuff-is-a crutch-for-the-weak-minded hat I wore for the 37 years that preceded my unexpected and unsought conversion, my current beliefs don’t appear to be much different than G-O-D in the salami.

That's why, when I hear my Christian brothers and sisters trying to use logic, reason, traditions and texts to explain a faith that operates in a realm beyond mere logic, I can't help but think their heartfelt and sincere attempts sound a lot like Nancy's claim, "I can't make this up...it's there in the burn marks."

No grand conclusion on this one. Just some observations that I hoped might spark some discussion. Let me know what you think.