A Kingdom of Germs is within you
We think of th spiritual realm as cosmic and larger than life. But what if we have it backwards and the spiritual realm is actually on a microbiological level (at least in part)? Christ himself said, "The Kingdom of God is within you." What began this train of thought was listening to a radio show, where a genomic researcher had commented that 90% of our DNA was not really ours, but belonged rather to microbes. It has long been understood that we are made up of more "other things", than we are made up of our own cells. How hard would it be for a foreign or unwanted microbe to take over a person? Much like we talk about a person being overtaken by an evil spirit. Lets define a spirit; an unseen force which manifests itself in other living things. Now define microbe; a microscopic organism which reproduces itself inside other living things. The custom of saying "Bless you," when someone sneezes, comes from the superstition that your sneeze was