So many of us begin our faith with an encounter and end with nothing but a doctrine. If we could compare the journey of faith to the growth of an individual, we could say that in the childhood years we struggle to understand the mystery of God just as a child struggles to understand the mystery of the world. In response we turn to the wisdom of our religious tradition as a child turns to the wisdom of his or her parents. In our adolescence we often lose this childlike wonder, failing to realize that the wisdom passed down to us was never meant to do away with the mystery but was meant only to
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