What if it's All True?

Kathleen Staudt, in a recent essay at the Daily Episcopalian, invites us all to consider an alternative discipline during Lent.  She certainly gets my attention by challenging the skeptic in me, the part that doubts some, if not all, of those mysterious and miraculous things told in the Bible really happened. For example, did Jesus feed the thousands with just a few loaves of bread and fish?  Could he really cure the man blind from birth or the woman who simply touched his robe?  I have always struggled with believing those events occurred as they were recorded.

In What if it's all true, Kathy urges the skeptics like me to take a "time out from doubt."  She notes

Lent is a time to stretch our faith -- to live with these familiar stories, which we’ve called Good News. Take a break from questions about what may be “factual” or accurate and ask “What if it’s all true?”

She continues by exploring how that "what if" perspective might change what we hear from those stories, and new meanings that can be opened up. If I, or maybe you, can let go of the barriers created by skepticism, and accept the mysterious ways in which God seems to work, something may change within.

I am going to try doing this for the rest of the season of Lent. Anyone else feel called to try out "What if it's all true?"

Bruce Calvin