IT WILL BOTHER YOU OFF AND ON, LIKE A ROCK IN YOUR shoe. Or startle you, like the first crash of thunder in a summer storm. Or lodge itself beneath your skin like a splinter. Or show up again—the uninvited guest whose heavy footsteps you’d recognize anywhere, appearing at your front door with a suitcase in hand at the worst possible time. Doubt will pull you farther out to sea like riptide. Or hold your head under as you drown—triggered by an image, a question, something the pastor said, something that doesn’t add up, the unlikelihood of it all, the too-good-to-be-trueness of it, the way the
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