Day 25
The one line that strikes me in this passage is this: "Great faith and great doubt often go hand in hand, especially when it comes to accepting that Jesus is truly present in the Eucharist." Page 111
That is a powerful line because it tells us a positive truth. Faith and doubt go together. When People tell me they have doubts, I always tell them doubts are often the seeds of faith. If there was no room for doubt, there would be no room for me.
The secret, I think, is not to live in the doubt forever.
Some of you will be old enough to remember the old sitcom, "Family Times". Michael J. Fox plays a politically conservative young man (Alex Keaton) raised by politically liberal parents. In one poignant episode, one of his best friends dies. To cope with his death, Alex goes to see a counselor and the counselor asks him, "Alex, do you believe in God?" Alex dodges the question. A little later the counselor asks it again. He dodges it again. The scenario keeps repeating itself until finally Alex says, "Yea, I believe in God; otherwise nothing makes sense."
That is faith and doubt living together, but faith not giving in to the doubt. That is my prayer for all of you.
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