Doubt

Jaye Ramsey Sutter wonders about something that has always puzzled me.  Why is it that when a piece of toast or a grease mark seems to resemble a person, people jump to the conclusion that the person represented is "the Virgin Mary" or some other divine?

How do we know that?  Do we have a Polaroid of her?  When was it taken?  Is it a candid or perhaps a studio portrait?  Maybe it is a nun?  Or it is a Muslim woman?  Or perhaps it is a bride?   I guess it depends on who actually finds the image?

I think this phenomenon reveals more about doubt than it does about faith.  Pure and perfect faith does not need these kind of reminder images to support it.  It exists outside the physical world of evidence and proof.  Those given to doubt, however, are made anxious by their own uncertainty and therefore seek confirmation of their (tenuous) beliefs in real-world evidence.  They will tend to see Jesus in toast and grease rather than in their hearts and souls.