Faith
is not about understanding the ways of God. It is not about maneuvering
God into a position of human subjugation, making a God who is a benign
deity who exists to see life as we do. Faith, in fact, is not about
understanding at all. It is about awe in the face of the God of all. And
it is awe that inspires an alleluia to the human soul. Faith is about
reverencing precisely what we do not understand—the mystery of the Life
Force that generates life for us all. It is about grounding ourselves in a universe so intelligent, so
logical, so clearly loving that only a God in love with life could
possibly account for it completely.
When we center our power outside ourselves, which is of the essence
of faith, we have faith in something greater than our smallness. We take
our very lack of control as a sign of God’s presence in the world. It
is precisely because of our smallness that we can come to see and trust
the greatness of God that surrounds us. It is only then that we can
really come to see the face of God in the face of the other. Read more....