July 19, 2004
Faith
We do faith an injustice if we think of it only as a security and not as a risk or even as its own evidence. For one of faith’s great gifts is that it creates doubt.
Doubt circumscribes faith, makes it true to itself and not merely a trusting shadow of itself. Doubt energizes faith both through encouragement and discouragement, for both can attract and challenge faith into new realms of exploration, into what can become a fulling of life.
Faith led us out of Eden and back into Gethsemane. Gardeners, bless them, always seem naturally to know this better than we.