Searching for Enough: The High-Wire Walk Between Doubt and Faith

by Tyler Staton

Community that affirms you without challenging you will make you feel comfortable, but it will never move you, never heal you.

Real spirituality begins, though, when a person stops theorizing about God and begins actually attempting to know God. That’s how it’s always worked. Theory is safe and predictable because you get to remain in control. Theory happens on your terms. Relationship, on the other hand, is anything but safe and predictable. Relationship is to surrender control, to be open to disappointment again, but maybe, just maybe, on the other side of an attempt to actually know God, you’ll find life.

Maybe the voice that calms your restlessness and the peace that stills your anxiety are found in the very risk you can hardly stomach taking—the risk of relationship with God.