If the truth be known, most of us would have to admit that we walk a very fine line between believing and not believing. There are times in our lives when, yes, we do seem to believe all these things we say about God when we read the Bible and sing the hymns in our own churches. There are even times when we’d say, yes, we feel close to God, whatever that means.

But there are also those desert times in our lives when we wonder whether or not we believe any of it at all anymore: God, Jesus, the church, discipleship -- all of it seems like so much pie in the sky, a lot of sound and fury signifying nothing. It’s especially true of miracles, isn’t it?

The problem with miracles is that they don’t seem to happen any more, so we’re not sure we believe in them anymore. So we joke about the miracles i…