In this season of graduations, we celebrate the learning that continues on past school — the life-long habits of inquiry, openness to new ideas, discernment. Every question leads to yet another question. Doubts are welcome, for as Annie Lamott says, “The opposite of faith is not doubt, it’s certainty.” Or Paul Tillich: “Doubt isn’t the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.” So we keep doubting, and asking, and learning. “Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves,” said Rilke. “Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
O God
We have said, “Your word is a lamp for our feet, a light for our path.”
Sometimes it seems more like a flickering candle.
Hymn words from David Stevenson…”. Welcome doubt! Refine our thinking, Urge us further into light; Lead us to a greater dawning. From the shadows of our night…”
read moreIt is time for a change … so that divine order can unfold. Abram’s soul did not incarnate simply to be happy and comforable. His is a much grander destiny.
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