Like Adam Duritz echoed in "Mr. Jones" I want to be someone who believes. And it seems the alternate is giving up. So, I try so very hard to know what to believe, but it seems elusive. After spending most of my life expecting I will know something, I only know that I will never know, wait, secretly, I still hope that is false.
When I become one who knows I will share the secret with others, because the joy of knowing comes in the disclosing or something.
But, truthfully, there have been very powerful moments that have and never will be shared, likely they will find kinship or understanding in no other breast.
I have been deeply touched by honesty and intrigued by disclosure of truth by others. But from it I can only tell that there is no one way to know things, and faith is the hope for things not seen, well, there surely must be unknowable things or else faith would be useless. So, I should stop looking to know if I ever hope to believe.
Years ago, I heard a man's rebuttle to no evidence of Moses and his children of Israel roaming about in the deseret. Regarding such Bible stories he said, "being factual and being true in this case is not the same thing." And often I have applied that to my life situations. Faith as tiny as a grain of mustard could move a mountain, and look what Enoch accomplished....wait, how? Believe me, the stories of Enoch are worth knowing.... *Wink*
Then, there is the way of gaining belief
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