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TO HAVE FAITH - Ronald Rolheiser



    To have faith is to see everything against
    an infinite horizon.
    .... Faith is not a question of basking in the certainty that
    there is God and that God is taking care of us.
    Many of us are never granted this kind of assurance.

    Certitude is not the real substance of faith.
    Faith is a way of seeing things.
    It is meant to change our eyesight,
    to take the reality of our lives and all that
    is in them -- everyday work, relationships,
     family, love, sex, hurt, longing, fidelity, failure,
    sin, suffering and death -- and set these against
    the horizon of the eternal and the infinite.

    What faith does is give us a double vision:
    when we have the eyes of faith,
    we see a certain divine glow shimmering
    within the ordinary, just as we see all that
    is ordinary against a horizon of the eternal.
    Plato called this "contemplating the divine,"
    and traditional religion calls it
    "the finger of God in our lives."

    Whatever the phrase, there is in the lives of
    every one of us a conspiracy of accidents
    that might aptly be called divine providence.
    We have faith when we can see this,
    when we can read the events of our lives
    precisely against a divine backdrop.
    But how is this to be done? .....


    from the book "Against An Infinite Horizon"by Ronald Rolheiser

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