The Roles of Faith in Our Lives · Crutches & Necessary Leaps
⁘ “What is faith, what its context, its function, its meaning... There's faith that latches on to doctrines, philosophical formulations, ideas. Something for you to grasp on to, but often disconnected from living reality. Then the necessary initial leaps of faith. Bridges beyond your limited frame of conceptions. Whatever faith as a whole may mean for you for you, let's not craft our lives and hopes into castles in the clouds. What's your take on matters of faith?”
What is faith, what it's context,
what it's function, and what it's meaning...
So there's the sort of faith that takes for its object
doctrines, philosophical formulations, ideas.
Something for you to grasp on to,
to give some context for your life,
but often so very disconnected from living reality.
I think we're all better off growing out of that.
Then we have the often necessary initial leaps of faith.
Just follow along, see where it goes, and what unfolds.
If you don't engage,
if you subject it all to
your intellect from the get-go,
you may never get anywhere at all
beyond your limited frame of conceptions.
So in there, faith is very much like a bridge,
as a bridge of transition into real living insights.
Then to the meaning of faith as a whole.
Whatever that it may be for you,
but let us not build these castles in the clouds,
investing all of our hopes, even our identities in them.
For when this house of cards collapses in face of reality,
we face categorical collapse ourselves.
How and where does faith serve you in
your quest for authentic fulfillment in life?
What You Say – on matters of faith?