Some food for thought

Relative to all the things that I’ve gone through during my short time on this earth, a disproportionate amount of suffering in my life has been due to the ongoing presence of doubt and uncertainty in my life. I seem to constantly go from one problem to the next, and have been doing so ever since I realized that religion was something I ought to be seriously thinking about (rather than just drifting through).

One quote that has comforted me now and again is the following from Madeleine L’Engle:

Those who believe they believe in God but without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and even at times without despair, believe only in the idea of God, and not in God himself.