Universally known for his highly innovative art, Salvador Dali, whose birthday falls in the month of May, has left a fascinating legacy for us to contemplate.  You may like his work, you may not.  Either way, however, Dali's work makes us think.  What if the world is as fungible as his art makes it to be?  What if our thoughts are as slippery as his work makes them appear to be?

     In short, what if existence is as surreal as Dali's art renders it?  Although we could discuss for some time the concept of reality, and although most of us realize that we determine our vision of reality through our individual perception, we can nonetheless see the wisdom of Dali's vision.  How much do we really know about what we feel and see?

     As Dali tells us, it is the fact of life's mystery that makes it singularly alluring:  it is as much darkness as it is light.  And that's the point:  we err when we suppose we can fit existence into a box.  Even if we believe in a greater presence, and even if we hold to the notion of an afterlife, we are still knocking at the door of what we don't know.

     After all, we are only human.  In the same way, however, God is only God, which is the central issue:  the fact of God's factuality ensures that while life's mystery endures, it is a mystery lived in a meaningful universe.

     And with this we find hope.