The Recklessness of Faith
I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap and then you grow wings….
If we misconceive God as Father Protector … then each disappointment reduces what may confidently be affirmed about God. And this is how most people lose their faith….
Fear destroys intimacy. It distances us from each other; or makes us cling to each other, which is the death of freedom…. Only love can create intimacy, and freedom too, for when all hearts are one, nothing else has to be one – neither clothes nor age; neither sex nor sexual preference; race nor mind-set….
God provides minimum protection, maximum support – support to help us grow up, to stretch our minds and hearts until they are as wide as God’s universe….
There is nothing anti-intellectual in the leap of faith, for faith is not believing without proof but trusting without reservation. Faith is no substitute for thinking. On the contrary, it is what makes good thinking possible. It has what we might call a limbering effect on the mind; by taking us beyond familiar ground, faith ends up giving us much more to think about….
Love measures our stature; the more we love, the bigger we are. There is no smaller package in all the world than that of a man wrapped up in himself.
Dare to act wholeheartedly without absolute certainty … there is more mercy in God than sin in us.
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