The song from the Sound of Music goes, "Let's start at the very beginning, a very good place to start. When you read you begin with ABC. When you sing you begin with do-re-mi."
No matter where I go in my faith, I keep coming back to the same place. It doesn't matter what questions I ask or what doubts I raise, what stories I read or what prayers I say. It all comes down to the simple experience of being loved and safe, the way a small child feels as a gentle hand rubs her back to help her fall asleep.
After a long and distinguished career, the theologian Karl Barth gave one of his last lectures at the University of Chicago. When he invited questions, the president of the seminary asked, "Of all the theological insights you have ever had, which do you consider to be the greatest of them all?" Barth paused for a moment with his eyes closed and then said: "Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so!"
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