Editorial August 19, 2024 Issue

Finding the real cause

Susan Stark

In everyday life we might not think much about cause-and-effect relationships until we encounter something we don’t like, such as pain or sickness. Then we try to figure out what’s making us suffer.

What if our belief that we need to find a material cause for sickness is wrong? Wouldn’t it be a great relief to know that there’s a better way to think about cause and effect?

The words and works of many people in the Bible point in a spiritual direction. They searched for a primary cause for all things and found God to be that cause, the universal divine intelligence, as proclaimed in statements such as, “Thou art great, and doest wondrous things: thou art God alone” (Psalms 86:10).

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