Love and prayers for Mary and Paula, both post foot surgery and doing well.
Here we are, on chapter 10 of John Ortberg’s Faith and Doubt, titled “Why I Believe.” Ortberg writes, “We will sift through a number of reasons to believe in God, looking for the one best reason…. I believe there is a God for a pile of reasons: dreams, arguments, banana cream pie, umpires, Hotel Rwanda, complicated telephone mailbox systems, Little Nell….” And so on.
What, then, were our reasons for believing in God? We were of stunningly different opinions, though all centered around “Yes, I do.” Ortberg writes, “In theory, many people in our day hold the belief that right and wrong are subjective – just preference, just vanilla or chocolate. You have yours, I have mine.” In today’s society, we often hear, “Don’t impost your beliefs on me.”
We discussed this space that each of us occupies, including all that we are and all that we touch, our possibilities, everything. Some called it a box, some called it a cradle. But in that space, we can take on or discard parts of us. Inside that space, are all the things that define what and why each of us believes.
Teacher David Severe sent us forth to think about boxes.
Written by: Carolyn Wall
