[OSList] Fwd: Richard Rohr Meditation: Faith and Doubt Are Not Opposites

[Marc C. Trudeau]

This hit my inbox today and is closely related to Harrison’s wonderful opening at P&HP on the Saturday.

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From: Center for Action and Contemplation <Meditations at cac.org>
Date: February 3, 2021 at 2:11:51 AM EST
To: "Marc C. Trudeau" <marctrudeau at alum.wpi.edu>
Subject: Richard Rohr Meditation: Faith and Doubt Are Not Opposites
Reply-To: Meditations at cac.org


Author Sue Monk Kidd has written eloquently about the disruption spiritual seekers often encounter in midlife and our resistance to it. She wonders:

What has happened to our ability to dwell in unknowing, to live inside a question and coexist with the tensions of uncertainty? Where is our willingness to incubate pain and let it birth something new? What has happened to patient unfolding, to endurance? These things are what form the ground of waiting. And if you look carefully, you’ll see that they’re also the seedbed of creativity and growth—what allows us to do the daring and to break through to newness. . . .

Creativity flourishes not in certainty but in questions. Growth germinates not in tent dwelling but in upheaval. Yet the seduction is always security rather than venturing, instant knowing rather than deliberate waiting. [2]



[2] Sue Monk Kidd, When the Heart Waits: Spiritual Direction for Life’s Sacred Questions(HarperSanFrancisco: 1990), 25.
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