Wrestling with God

"Our faith is not in words. Our faith is in a person. Our faith is in God, who is revealing the divine self to us in Christ and in the lives of the Body of Christ. The word calls us into a personal dialogue, not a slavish idealism of words, not a rigid love affair with ideas. That is fundamentalism.
The scriptures call us into a personal struggle like Jacob’s. He wrestled with the angel of Yahweh (Genesis 32:24-31). In that personal involvement, in our personal wrestling match with the mystery of God, we come to faith. Faith is not just another competing ideology. It is more a process than a conclusion, more a way of relating than a way of explaining, more a wrestling match than a classroom lesson."
- Richard Rohr - from The Great Themes of Scripture

I have a bumper sticker on my car that says "Faith is a journey, not a guilt trip". Same basic idea. I really resonate with RR on the subject of faith, both this piece and another I included several months ago. I think he gets it right.