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Searching For God

You are born.  You come into the world with no baggage, no opinions, no knowledge, except for those unknown, unreflective experiences of floating in your mother's womb.
You spend your first weeks sleeping, eating,  defecating and urinating, crying out for food or because you have painful experiences of wind clogging your alimentary canal, lovingly attended, winded, fed and cleaned by your parents - if you're lucky. And if you are lucky your parents do everything for you willingly and lovingly, with rueful, merry grimaces as they pucker up their faces at your nappy smells.  
In love they ignore the demands of parenthood, and you take it all for granted. You are such an adorable little creature.  You are magic, and you live in a magical world.
Gradually you become able to focus on the world around you, recognise the faces of those who feed and love you.  It is a beautiful world, except for wind and  occasional  pain from growing teeth .
Boy! What a world! And you begin to learn about it.

It's natural, I suppose, that you inherit attitudes and beliefs from your parents as you grow and your awareness develops.  
"Why?" you ask.  "Why this? Why that?" 
Driving your parents wild as they seek answers.
They begin to use words like God, and you gradually get to know that there is an unexplained Being who is Lord and Master of Creation, All-Powerful and Loving.  
You don't know much about Him.  You just accept that He is - apart from the occasional "Why?"  
It seems reasonable, natural - for there is a lot about the world you do not know.

If you are born into a Catholic family you might eventually discover that God is a Spirit and that He is known, mysteriously, as the Trinity.

It takes a long time to even begin to understand. 
Jesus is a great help.  He speaks like someone who knows, someone with authority.