Faith is evolutionary, in every culture, and in any life. Even a person who could proclaim, all of their days, “I believe in God” or “I trust in prayer” would fill those words with endlessly transforming memories, experiences, connotations. The same enduring fundamental belief will hold a transfigured substance in the beginning, the middle, and the end of one lifetime. Wisdom, of the everyday sort, is about how we reckon with the surprises and mysteries that make life life as opposed to stasis. Mystery lands in us as a humbling fullness of reality we cannot sum up or pin down. Such moments
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