With religious matters, my mind is often busy building closely fitted distinctions and rigid concepts, laboring to make a safe enclosure that protects something. Theology, doctrine, dogma often seems a poignant effort to secure a fort.
"Faith" or Competition
To Do This Week

This week, notice how much of your “faith” is about simple trust, and how much of it is about your thoughts, other people’s thoughts, dogma (classic or current), or even “conventional wisdom.” Which do you want to predominate? If dogma has taken on some obsessive, competitive characteristics, let a space open up in your heart around one of those ideas. Imagine saying to your opponent, “Gee, that’s a good point; maybe you’re right.” Can’t do it? Now you know!

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