Back in 1957, when the first Russian cosmonauts flew into space, one of them came back with the brave announcement that he had been "up there," but he didn't see God.  He was looking in the wrong place, and so do we.  We need to look within.

One of my favorite religious authors, Karen Armstrong, makes this point when she shares her own testimony in a book called, A History of God:

"As a child, I had a number of strong religious beliefs but little faith in God.  There is a distinction between belief in a set of propositions and a faith which enables us to put our trust in them.  I believed implicitly in (all the right things about God).  I cannot say, however, that my belief in these religious opinions… gave me much confidence that life here on earth was good…  I entered a religious order and, as… a young nun, I learned a good deal more about the faith.  I applied myself to apologetics, scripture, theology and church history.  I delved into the history of the monastic life and embarked on a minute discussion of the Rule of my own order, which we had to learn by heart.  Strangely enough, God figured very little in any of this.  Attention seemed focused on secondary details and the more peripheral aspects of religion.  I wrestled with myself in prayer, trying to force my mind to encounter God, but he remained a stern taskmaster who observed my every infringement of the Rule, or was tantalizing absent…  But nothing had actually happened to me from a source beyond myself."

Finally, after thirty years of study, she discovered that instead of waiting for God to descend from on high, she should have looked within herself to discover God.