06 August 2007

I stand between the darkness and the light

I struggle with my faith on a daily basis. I've been watching too much Babylon 5 lately so in my mind I keep hearing Delenn saying something about it all being part of the path. For so long I've wanted my faith to be well defined, something that was a sure thing. But I don't think it will ever be that easy. And maybe it really is all part of the path. But what path that is, I don't know.

When I picked the title and the URL for this website, this blog, I felt it was appropriate for my life at the time but I think it will always be appropriate for my spiritual path. When one question comes up, I seek an answer. But soon that answer will become a question again. When it comes to my faith, I can say that I am absolutely uncertain.

I think the definition of absolute uncertainty fits: the size of the range of values in which the true value of the measurement probably lies. The truth, or the truth I seek, lies somewhere along a range of values, beliefs, but there is nothing absolute. Hence the uncertainty. I cannot know the position and the momentum of my faith at the same time. I can be certain for a while (position) but then there is no forward momentum. As soon as I move forward (or backward) then I lose the exact position. See...science and faith do mix. Well, at least at the quantum level.