Today, these are words from someone else. I read them last night, and wanted to share them. By Tomas Halik, in the introduction of 'Patience With God'. (Italics were found in the original; bold-ing is my addition.)
"... I'm convinced that maturing in one's faith also entails accepting and enduring moments - and sometimes even lengthy periods - when God seems remote or remains concealed. What is obvious and demonstrable doesn't require faith. We don't need faith when confronted with unshakeable certainties accessible to our powers of reason, imagination, or sensory experience. We need faith precisely at those twilight moments when our lives and the world are full of uncertainty, during the cold night of God's silence. And its function is not to allay our thirst for certainty and safety, but to teach us to live with mystery. Faith and hope are expressions of our patience at just such moments - and so is love. Love without patience is not real love... Faith - like love - is inseparably linked to trust and fidelity. And trust and fidelity are proven by patience."
1 comment:
sounds familiar ground... a poetic way of expressing it from past centuries is "the dark night of the soul", where all is still and quiet, to prove our faith, and that we may truly know the Lover of our soul. funny how such a lesson never loses it's usefulness in God's hand... ~D.
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