Doubt not only about God (“Did God really say . . . ?”) but also about her recollection of history and by extension—and more importantly—doubt about the nature of her relationship with God. As Michael Polanyi has pointed out, in order for us to doubt anything, at the moment we do we simultaneously put our trust in something else.4 We are invariably made for faith, to operate out of a need to trust something we cannot control.
