'faith is the courage to face into our illusions and allow ourselves to be disillusioned about them, the courage to walk through our disillusions and dispel them'
The Christian conception of disillusionment is deeply conditioned by courage. Facing up to our thinly veiled stories about reality is not easy, but it is our calling. Faith means we do not flinch in the face of disillusionment, papering over the cracks with other myths, but choose to live in the face of truth. The call to 'live with unveiled faces' (2 Corinthians 3:18) defines not only our approach to God, but also our approach to the world and ourselves. Faith is, we must acknowledge, often more uncomfortable than comforting.
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