Finding God in the Waves: How I Lost My Faith and Found It Again Through Science

by Mike McHargue

Another patient was asked what he believed about God. His left brain spoke and said he was an atheist, but his right brain said he was a believer. An atheist and a believer coexisting in the same skull. Two halves of the same brain matter, flesh and blood. So does half of a person’s soul go to heaven and the other to hell? Does Jesus live in only half of a person’s heart?

These days, my intercessory prayers are an act of surrender—a way to voice my hopes and my hopelessness, my power to act and my powerlessness. When I pray for things I hope for, I am searching for ways I can act to make a situation better. When I pray in situations I find hopeless, I’m searching for that redemptive perspective.