Sunday, March 07, 2010

A Non-proselytizing Note on Faith

The Trooper’s Girl has a post up titled Taildraggers, Spears & Kilts, which somehow ended up including the following thought, though the post itself actually is meant to draw you to a 2:35 viddie of a small plane in flight, with an experienced pilot at the controls.  The thought which is the impetous for my post.

What’s that? Indigenous people have always known God. They do not - GOD does not - need anyone to tell anyone else how to believe. Nor even if they ought to believe. I assure you there are times when I am quite certain that He simply cannot Be. But that is the course of faith and I think it is supposed to wend its way like a stream in a forest - you never see it, whole. You can lose it, backtrack, turn your back on it when a raging river sings a siren song…and you can pollute it. In the end, it is just you and that faith. Nothing else crosses that limitless sky. So why concern yourself with others? It becomes…sullied. Still, some people do feel that need and I try to look on it with a kind of patient regret.

Amen.

Oh, The Trooper’s Girl also has a new love.

Posted by John Venlet on 03/07 at 09:29 AM
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