"Faith is not a state of mind but an action in the world, a movement toward the world."
Read the whole thing.
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This essay made my heart ache, but I am missing the substantive connection between the author's experiences and his faith in God. To me, the crux of the essay was the following passage: "But it also felt, for the first time in my life, like I was being fully possessed by being itself. “Joy is the overflowing consciousness of reality,” Weil writes, and that’s what I had, a joy that was at once so overflowing that it enlarged existence, and yet so rooted in actual things that, again for the first time, that’s what I began to feel: rootedness." (Wiman) The quest for rootedness seems to permeate the author's relationship to poetry, love, his illness, and this world. How exactly God and church and prayer fit in relationship to rootedness eludes me: is is the social and cultural manifestation of rootedness they provide? Is it the physical act of sitting in the pews, the clasping of hands, the interruption of daily life on Sunday- do these tangible acts provide for a more concrete knowledge of rootedness? I yearn to hear the taps on the walls myself, but who or what I am listening to, I just can't say. 
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I guess we'll have to read whatever you've linked to, otherwise we'll have no idea what you are talking about.
Ross, how do you pronounce your last name? It looks like it should be pronounced "Do that". Or maybe "Doubt hat". What say you?
Posted by Harry | June 11, 2007 8:57 AM