Reason fails

Where will logic and reason fail you?
How quickly will reasoning loose its usefulness?

• When you fall in love, and if you try to understand it rather than just enjoy its pleasures, reason fails
  
• When a girl (or boy) that you are deeply in love with no longer feels the same way about you and you are crushed, reason fails
• When friends betray you or those for whom you have sacrificed yourself treat lightly your gift and spurn your love, reason fails
• When you are captivated by beauty in the world or in art or music, and transported in tears, reason fails
• When you experience a debilitating failure in an important venture, reason fails
• When you find yourself in the grip of an addiction or depression or some other uncontrollable urge, reason fails
• When you ask the question, Why should I do anything for or care for anyone else but myself? reason fails
• When some injury or sickness brings you within reach of death so that you smell the odor of it and retch, and tremble at the dark figure that comes to claim you, reason fails
• When you encounter an undeniable miracle or see a ghost, reason fails
• When you are overpowered by a sense of God's presence and find yourself certain beyond all doubt of untestable truths, speechless before its power, unable to explain how you know but more certain of it than anything you've ever known, reason fails
• When you are deeply, powerfully thankful, reason fails
• When you are guilty and your own conscience condemns you bitterly, reason fails
• When you decide you want to have knowledge of unseen things and begin to long for a relationship with God, and strive to see the infinitely more satisfying truths outside the observable world of science and material possessions, reason fails
• When you are lonely, both in the momentary spacial sense and in the soul sense of being lost in the cosmos, hungry for the relationship for which you were made, vacant and cold in your soul and wishing for something good and right to fill it, reason fails
• When you loose your ability to think in old age or mental illness, reason by definition has failed
• When you experience disabling fear, either of something that is not real or of real danger that can do no more than end your life, for why does reason or logic care if your little candle stops burning?  it is not rational to fear death or anything at all because the impulse to self-preservation is instinctual, not rational