An unthought is an assumption we don’t reason to so much as we reason from. The great postmodern novelist David Foster Wallace captured the idea well with a story of two young fish. They cross paths with an older fish who bids them good morning and asks, “How’s the water?” Wallace narrates: “The two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually

The cruelty of our age is peddling the lie to kids that they can create their own moral universes.

In one sense, we are all far more fabulous than we realize—as eternal beings uniquely reflecting the divine image. In another sense, we are hardly as fabulous as we like to think we are.

Second, taking God’s truth more seriously than my unruly emotions gives me opportunities to experience what J. R. R. Tolkien called a “eucatastrophe.” Tolkien coined this term to describe when the unexpected occurs and it is good, “a sudden and miraculous grace,” “a fleeting glimpse of Joy, Joy beyond the walls of the world, poignant as grief.”11

In countless ways, God’s truth has helped me cope with the unpredictability and harshness of life in a fallen world. I’ll briefly share two. First, the supremacy of God allows my emotions to be felt but doesn’t give them the final say. It tames my feelings.

In all those unseen moments, I will miss the huge, kingdom implications of this unremarkable work—that the changing of a diaper might help change a heart, and a changed heart might change the world. May we make the most of our days in the millions of tiny acts that make an epic difference for time and eternity.

As Gandalf the Grey put it, “It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.”

There is beauty, truth, love, and justice that we don’t invent but discover. They were here long before we were born and would still be here if we all went belly-up tomorrow. We further damage the world when we don’t sync our lives to the rhythm of those realities.

There is no such thing as someone losing their faith. Rather, people relocate their faith to another object.