Is there really a G-d

I needed money. A letter came in the mail. Card from Grandma. Late b-day present. $50. Yay, I'm rich. Thanks G-d.

Maybe there is, and maybe there isn't. It's a perspective. Is the cup half empty, or is it really half full? It's however you choose to look at it. That's the main thing. Choice. G-d gave us free choice. And now you can choose to believe that G-d exists, or believe that He does not. It is entirely up to you.

I choose to believe in the existence of G-d. Is there a reason for it? Is it because I was brought up believing that, and I'm too lazy, or scared to change my way of thinking now? Or.... consider this. Maybe, maybe, I actually believe there is a G-d because I thought about it, considered it, and found there to be no other possibility.

There is coincidence. There is nature. There are things that just 'happen'. But in the world we live in, I find it easier to live when you are living for someone, for something. When you have a defined purpose here. Otherwise, why bother? Indeed.

To argue is pointless, as I have frustratingly found out. An opinion is an opinion, even on a matter of such importance as this. But then, the matter contains only as much import as you give it, doesn't it?

To me it's important. To me, G-d is G-d. He exists. He is an enigma, and I don't try to understand Him. My conduct is between me and Him, it is no one else's business. If I choose to sin, I have but One to answer to.

Does it bother me that not all believe as I do? A little. Should it? Maybe not, depends why it bothers me. But to try to change someones point of view is useless. What bothers me is when someone calls me closed minded. That, I am not.

So believe what you want to, because at the end of the day, YOU are the one that has to live with yourself. Not me. And if we disagree... then so be it.

As someone pointed out, we can sit down and have chollent, (or anything, I'm open to suggestions,) and discuss baseball, the economy, President Obama, or any other topic that may come up. G-d doesn't have to be taboo (a word I recently learned is avoda zara) but He need not be in the forefront of our conversation.

Because me, I know He is there, lurking in the shadows. And you, well, You just don't see Him. And that is your choice.

p.s. feel free to check out this link, in which non- Jewish students try to justify G-d's existance.