Faith is a journey. Movement and
mystery are always a part of it, and real faith won’t let us settle-down into
the status quo or become comfortable with staying the same or reconcile
ourselves to being stuck. Faith is about
adventure, discovery, and risk; it always involves questing, searching, and
seeking.
Sidney Bechet said about jazz music:
You know, there’s
this mood about the music, a kind of need to be moving. You just can’t set it down and hold it. Those Dixieland musicians, they tried to do
that; they tried to write the music down and kind of freeze it. Even when they
didn’t arrange it to death, they didn’t have any place to send it; that’s why
they lost it. You just can’t keep the
music unless you move with it.” [in Nat Hentoff, The Jazz Life (NY: De Capo Press, 1961/1975), p. 115].
this mood about the music, a kind of need to be moving. You just can’t set it down and hold it. Those Dixieland musicians, they tried to do
that; they tried to write the music down and kind of freeze it. Even when they
didn’t arrange it to death, they didn’t have any place to send it; that’s why
they lost it. You just can’t keep the
music unless you move with it.” [in Nat Hentoff, The Jazz Life (NY: De Capo Press, 1961/1975), p. 115].
So it is with faith: if it is genuine, it will move us and we will move
with it. The movement is often into
unknown places in the heart and mind. The
faith journey takes us off of well-worn roads; we leave behind what is secure
and certain in favor of what we do not yet know or understand, but which we
sense is crucial for our growth. We’re
not on a round trip tour; we’re on a pilgrimage into a different life—a better,
more whole, and more joyful life.
with it. The movement is often into
unknown places in the heart and mind. The
faith journey takes us off of well-worn roads; we leave behind what is secure
and certain in favor of what we do not yet know or understand, but which we
sense is crucial for our growth. We’re
not on a round trip tour; we’re on a pilgrimage into a different life—a better,
more whole, and more joyful life.
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