| Title*: | WHY FAITH FEELS LIKE DOUBT AND DARKNESS |
| Article*: | "God befuddles the mind, the heart, and the imagination. It cannot be otherwise. Any God who could be understood would not be God. God is not a supreme Superman, like us, only bigger, stronger, and more powerful. The infinite, precisely because it is infinite, cannot be circumscribed and grasped, either in its existence, its person, or its capacity to love. We can know the infinite, but we cannot think the infinite. Because of this, at some point in our lives, faith will feel like darkness, belief like unbelief, and God's person and existence will feel like nothing, emptiness, non-existence, nada. Our minds and hearts will, at that point, come up dry and empty when they try to imagine or feel God, not because God doesn't exist or is less present than the physical world, but because God is so massively present, so real, so above all other lights, that God's reality will dwarf everything to the point to where it gives the impression that it itself doesn't exist In faith, God is known this way: As a light so bright that it's perceived as darkness, as a love so universal that it's perceived as indifference, and as a reality so real that it's perceived as nothing." |
| Category*: | Others |
| Source: | Ron Rolheiser, OMI |
