Contact

I remember being a child who always knew that there was something more than this. I went to church, I learned about the bible... but it was just a book. Just some stories. It had to all come with something even bigger.

How is it that when we are children ideas become so much smaller? The world is smaller, our dreams are smaller, sometimes even our God...

Are we born with the awareness of something "more"? Perhaps it is something that we are given by God in order to become closer to Him. This is one of those big questions that we may never know.

One of my favorite movies I've ever seen about our search for answers, our search for something bigger than us, is Contact. It combines our search through science - the theories we create, and prove, disprove - and religion - something that we will never be able to prove, it's not meant to be.

Contact is a must-see. They find something. Something they assume is scientific, something that they want to explain. Jodie Foster's character even has an experience with this something that no one else witnesses and they discount her search. When she finds that her experience has "failed" scientifically she asks herself the hard question: was it real?

What's real for you?