Strange belief

To believe in Jesus’ God, the God of unconditional accessibility and even-handed compassion, to believe in an anarchic mercy that ignores order, rank and merit, is to accept that our projects and patterns are the mark of failure, of illusion, of the infantile belief that we can dictate truth and reality. Because it is menacing and painful to be confronted with the knowledge that our constructions of controlled sense are liable to be empty self-serving, we readily turn to violence against the bearers of such knowledge: in Johannine terms, we have decided that we want to stay blind when the light is there before us, claiming we can see perfectly well.”

– Rowan Williams, The Wound of Knowledge (Cambridge, MA: Cowley Publications, 1990), 17.

Thanks to Halden

Do I truly believe in the God that the Archbishop talks about? He is talking about a God whose ways are not my ways and who remains for most part in a dark mist. What does it mean to believe is something so darkly wonderful? At the same time Jesus is a very strange and clearly only a very dimly understood answer.