I believe; help my unbelief!                                                              Mark 9:24

To be a Christian is to sail on perilous seas. We live by faith, and it’s never a finished faith. Mine has been collapsed and lying around me in shambles time after time. I’ve had to stop and reconsider and slowly build it up again, inasmuch as one builds it by oneself.

To build, we reinvestigate, see whether or not the new language can interpret more profoundly the old episodes and works. The task is never done. That ‘s exactly where we all stand - even Luther, for example. Time and again in his own confessions, Luther talks about moments of what he calls Anfechtungen, when he had the horrible fear that he might be wrong.

We resist the notion that the struggle toward the light is lifelong, but that is the fact.