Tag Archives: faith and doubt

He is greater than me

“It took me a long time to figure out what that meant,” he said. I was standing in line a few days ago in the local grocery when a young millennial behind me made a comment that at first I … Continue reading

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Patron saint

I listened again this morning to Lambert Dolphin’s interview from yesterday, and my wife asked me what I liked the most about it. I like that this man has a vast knowledge of the universe, both from his study of … Continue reading

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Remember the fire

  Nearly all of us will go through things in our lives that have the potential of destroying us but they don’t. We survive, we move on, we grow stronger. What’s more those intense times help create a quality of … Continue reading

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Coming to believe

2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. Believing is not an overnight thing. It’s something you come to, and it may take time. Some come to faith quickly; others struggle. It’s a … Continue reading

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Living in the lowlands

“Here’s to fragility and recognizing the treasure that can be found living in the lowlands in the place where faith and doubt, courage and fear, surrender and struggle, bravery and timidity and belief and unbelief happily intermingle and coexist quite … Continue reading

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Is doubt just the other side of faith?

It’s been quite a day. Jesus, whom they took down from the cross, dead, and laid in a borrowed grave on Friday night was now, on the following Sunday, walking around making appearances to people. Appearing and disappearing; showing up … Continue reading

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One

There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope when you were called; one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in … Continue reading

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What the heart knows that the head doesn’t

All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone. – Blaise Pascal I’ve been reading your comments from yesterday’s Catch and watching us all stumble gracefully over one of my most favorite people who … Continue reading

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