I scribbled this out during church one day:
One day you will come to a crossroads. At this point you will find a shocking disparity between what you’ve learned with your mind and what you know with your heart. This disparity exists for all of us but is easily subverted. At some point, this disparity becomes impossible for us to ignore. When you come to that convergence, the questions that theology and faith pose will become suddenly very important. The reason I participate actively in my faith now is so that when I come to that crossroads I’ll be prepared to travel it with both an educated mind as well as an informed heart.
This does not mean that faith of any kind is easy, just as a college course that’s worth taking is not easy. It also does not mean that one morning you decide what direction you’ll take on that crossroads and hold to it the rest of your time on earth. Faith is ever changing, ever difficult. It is a turbulent relationship with a Lover who knows you fully but whom you can never fully figure out. It’s the kind of relationship full of good days and bad days and fights and make-ups that is, in the end, the only kind of relationship worth having.
