Friday, July 25, 2025

believing

 Sometimes, after a sermon, someone will say to me, "Jim in that reading today, I'm not sure I believe it's true."

I always shock them by saying, "I''m not sure I believe it either."

The Bible has been edited so much that often it seems like that game "Telephone" where a group of people whisper something to each other and then on to the next person and so on.

What the last person hears isn't even close to what the original saying was.

Just like that.

Wallace Stevens wrote something I always keep in the back of my mind.

Here it is....

"The final belief is to

believe in a fiction,

which you know to be a fiction,

there being nothing else.

The exquisite truth is to know

    that it is a fiction

    and that you believe it it

    willingly."

Try that on and see how it works for you.

 

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