Comments on: faith http://erika.haub.net/faith/04/ Erika Carney Haub's musings on life and God from South Central, L.A. Fri, 29 Aug 2008 06:10:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: The Margins » What we can see http://erika.haub.net/faith/04/#comment-987 Wed, 06 Dec 2006 22:23:08 +0000 http://erika.haub.net/faith/04/#comment-987 [...] While the driving felt treacherous, the reality was that I could always see just enough in front of me to be able to continue. And I thought about how this is what the life of faith often feels like. I reflected on this once before when I described what it is like to go down the back staircase at our apartment in the dark. Even when you know that there is either a light that will come on at some point (like when I reach the bottom of our stairs), or, like my night drive in Tillamook, that while you may not be able to see much of anything around you, you can see just what you need to see to get where you are going, what we can’t see can paralyze us. [...] […] While the driving felt treacherous, the reality was that I could always see just enough in front of me to be able to continue. And I thought about how this is what the life of faith often feels like. I reflected on this once before when I described what it is like to go down the back staircase at our apartment in the dark. Even when you know that there is either a light that will come on at some point (like when I reach the bottom of our stairs), or, like my night drive in Tillamook, that while you may not be able to see much of anything around you, you can see just what you need to see to get where you are going, what we can’t see can paralyze us. […]

]]> by: Rick http://erika.haub.net/faith/04/#comment-2 Sat, 02 Apr 2005 21:07:00 +0000 http://erika.haub.net/faith/04/#comment-2 wow - very profound. and really true most of the time. too many people would stop going down the stairs under that kind of "pressure" - but faith takes one more step. wow - very profound. and really true most of the time. too many people would stop going down the stairs under that kind of “pressure” - but faith takes one more step.

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