[Joe 6-pack]

"I’ve often thought that there’s a very fine line between perfect detachment and despair. When you surrender everything, Jesus is there, they promise ... but what if he isn’t? What if there’s just living death until there’s dead death?"

I was once told, "It's ok to occasionally doubt your beliefs. Trouble begins when you start to believe your doubts."

In the intervening years, I've found ever increasing wisdom in those words. When one doubts or questions one's beliefs (of either profound theological or more temporal, mundane matters), one is prompted to dig deeper for answers, and the process tends to reaffirm and bolster those beliefs that are true and correct, and leads us closer to the truth for those beliefs which can not hold up to more intense scrutiny. Similarly, our doubts are often founded in fear, insecurity or self-deception. When we begin to trust in those, it is very disruptive to the soul.

[Tax-chick]

Similarly, our doubts are often founded in fear, insecurity or self-deception.

Very good point.

[Elsie]

I was once told, "It's ok to occasionally doubt your beliefs. Trouble begins when you start to believe your doubts."

AMEN!