Finding Faith: Something certain. A hope fulfilled. A place of rest and peace. Familiarity. Satisfaction. And the confirmation and safety in known we’re not alone.
Losing Faith: A risk. A loss. A fear confirmed. A place of confusion and gray. Cost. Weariness. And the open window to what might yet be.
Faith Re-Imagined: Somewhere between the rest and confusion, between the safety of not being alone and the window to what might yet be, just might be a new kind of faith – waiting to be discovered, experienced, enjoyed; faith that is bigger than the Faith we’ve known or experienced thus far – broader, bigger, riskier, full of cost and full of hope. Do we search for and stay with the Faith we’ve known or do we risk losing Faith in order to discover something beyond imagining?
W.H. Auden said, “To choose what is difficult all one’s days, as if it were easy, that is faith.” That feels like a re-imagined faith; one that risks and discovers.
And William Wordsworth: “Faith is passionate intuition.” Not the logical, safe choice – but the one led by the gut. That feels like a re-imagined faith; one that is dangerous and full of life.
How might we re-imagine what faith (and faithfulness) looks like? Will we risk? Will we hope? Will we lean into uncertainty as an expression of faith vs. looking for the certain, the safe, the sure? I don’t know – for me or for others, but I’m wondering about it…at least tonight. Wondering what finding Faith would feel like. Wondering what losing Faith would look like. Wondering how to re-imagine something I’ve not dared dream…Wondering how to move my overflowing brain of theory, thought, and imagination into praxis, experience, and reality. Pretty risky for a Saturday night’s musings. And enticing, provocative, invitational, hope-filled. Dare I dream? Dare I be faith-full?
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