idiosyncreant | At Tara in this Fateful Hour...a dark and stormy night

From Walking on Water:
"If we begin with certainties, we will end in doubt. But if we begin with doubts and bear them patiently, we may end in certainty." Francis Bacon, De Augmentis

[on higher mathmatics sparking encounters with God and inspiring faith]
"I asked questions, cosmic questions, and the German theologians answered them all--and they were questions which should not have been answered in such a finite, labratory-proof manner. I read their rigid answers, and I thought sadly, If I have to believ in all this limiting of God, then I cannot be a Christion. And I wanted to be one.
I had yet to learn the faithfulness of doutb. This is often assumed by the judgmental to be faithlessness, but it is rich, it is a prerequisite for a living faith."

"The journey homewards. Coming home. That's what it's all about. The journey to the coming of the kingdom. That's probably the chief difference between the Christian and the secular artist--the purpose of the work, be it story or music or paointing is to further the coming of the kingdom...to make us aware of our status as children of God, and to turn our feet homeward."

Madeleine L'Engle
~ a star now shining in another firmament ~