Doubt
" Faith without doubt leads to moral arrogance, the eternal pratfall of the religiously convinced." -Joe Klein(source article posted at the end.) This quote jumped from the page as I read it today. How are we tested? Through trials. How do we build faith? Through trials. What is faith without doubt? Nothing, it really isn't. Much like there would be no Jesus without Lucifer. No light without darkness. Faith wouldn't be faith without doubt. Too often in this life I have used "have faith" as a band-aid. Whenever doubt would creep in I would bat it out like an annoying fly but, like that fly, it doesn't go away unless we kill it, or set it free. Killing doubt, as we all know, is an impossibility. SHUCKS! But setting it free, now that is something. I realize that it isn't popular, but embracing, entertaining, searching out, and "freeing" my doubts has deepened my faith. It has changed my faith. ...