A Cure for Doubt?

Gospel: John 16: 20-23

The life of faith is one that of necessity has with it a life of doubts and pain, for faith always carries with it uncertainty.  But if we think about the things we "know", we will find that they are things we don't have much investment of mind and heart.  We don't have a relationship to them and they do not impact our day to day lives.  We take matters of knowledge for granted.  That is not the case with things in the realm of faith.  

For the realm of faith is a realm of relationship with another person.  In any relationship there is always an element of uncertainty and doubt, for we can never truly know another person.  We don't even really know our own selves all that well if we are honest about it.  The only tonic for doubt in the realm of faith is love as it is there that we come to the realization that faith is about a Person and not a set of propositions - that what cures our doubts is love expressed in deeds and not logical argumentation.  

We encounter this love through the loving deeds of God in the person of Jesus.  Through them we come to know that God is love and that we are invited to love by way of response.  It is only then that we will set aside the petty squabbles of theology and join the mystics and contemplatives around the table of love.