After my three recent posts on construction, deconstruction, and reconstruction, I had a few extra thoughts I thought worth sharing. To begin, this whole process of construction, deconstruction, and reconstruction is all about going through a time of serious doubts regarding your faith. It's a period of profound questioning, one many experience. Some find that …
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The Spiritual Journey Part 3: Reconstruction (Playing LEGO with Your Faith)
My 12 year old son Eli loves LEGO. Indeed, for the last couple of years we’ve gotten him a large LEGO set either for Christmas or his birthday. He’s got a 12-inch LEGO Yoda, the Avengers quinjet, and the Batman batcave. When he opens a new set, gets out the rather large manual, he patiently and meticulously …
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The Spiritual Journey Part 2: Deconstruction (Or Playing Jenga with Your Faith)
Last time I talked about receiving the building blocks of faith, the stage of the spiritual journey we might call construction. How we begin to become people of faith because of other people of faith. Beliefs get handed down. And at least for a period of our lives, we accept these beliefs without difficulty or …
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The Spiritual Journey Part 1: Construction (Receiving the Building Blocks of Faith)
We all have beliefs, ideas that we hold to be true and that matter deeply to us. I have beliefs and you have beliefs. Like me, you have beliefs that underlie the way you live, relate to other people, the decisions you make, and how you understand whatever is happening in the world around us. …
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