Lughnasa Honey Moon
Another positive aspect of going into the MIA today was the drive time. Although the constant in and out with the docent work and the Sierra Club had begun to wear me out, the occasional drive in offers a lot of time for contemplation, thinking.
Today the reimagining faith project popped up. I began to think about the function of faith, its origin, rather than a new content for it. This opened some interesting paths of thought. In the first instance I realized faith is a bridge from an individual to some grounding, centering, certain, transcendent, smooth, calm, assured place.
But why? What does faith bridge? It bridges a deep void, a chasm, chaos, an abyss, a gap between us as individuals and a something we feel missing in our life. What might that thing be?
These are a few of the things that could drive us to see a gap between our present experience and our desired experience: aimlessness, rootlessness, meaninglessness, isolation, alienation, terror, roughness, even fatelessness. In their own way each of these symptoms opens a gap between what we have and what we want.
And the landscape across the abyss has the antidote: smoothness, confidence, destiny, transcendence, calm, assurance, certainty, community. How to get there? A movement, as Kierkegaard called it, a leap, of faith.
In this line of thought there is a rich vein, a path through the wilderness, it seems to me, that led me to the reimagining faith project in the first place. More on that later.
