Irrelevant?

When did God become irrelevant? Granted, for the last 8 eight years I have been struggling with my personal losses--first my mom, then my husband, both in 2007. In those 8 years, I have been trying to come to terms with God and His plans for me. At no time, however, did I lose faith or hope or stop believing that God does, in fact, exist, and that He matters.

Recently a Pew poll tracked the changing attitudes of Americans toward religion.  I was not surprised at the decline in people leaving mainline Christian churches, but I was surprised by the number who are not affiliated with a religion at all.  (See link here: Pew Poll on America's Religious Views)  How can God be irrelevant? If there is no God, or if He is not worth one's time and attention, then what does all THIS mean--this life, this existence, this brief time on Earth?

My faith enriches my life, giving me the belief that my life does matter, that I am not a randomly selected zygote successfully grown to adulthood. Faith tells me that I am a spiritual being going through a human experience, but that this experience is a pathway to an eternity of being spiritual. When this mortal coil ends, my soul will thrive--at last!

Maybe I am delusional. Maybe I am lacking in intellectual ability. Maybe. BUT maybe I have attained a plane of realization that the non-affiliated have not yet achieved. Perhaps those of us who feel a connection to God have progressed far beyond those who feel no call on their hearts.

When the world goes awry, as it so often does, I will not shrink from the fight. As long as I am here, I know that God is here, too. He is, I know, because He is in me, and greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world (I John 4:4).