The Path of Faith

To believe is to surrender. And to surrender means to walk tirelessly towards a sovereign homeland, and that homeland is none other than God himself. To believe, therefore, is to start walking. Arise each morning and go in search of the Face of the Lord.

How can we be far from the Lord if the Lord is with us? He is with us in the certainty of faith (we know); and far away from us in the sense of “possessing,” in the sense of reaching That Someone for whom a longing to possess throbs within our deepest roots.

And this all happens amidst successive contradictions: How, if I am the echo of your voice, can it be that the voice is silent, and the echo continues to vibrate? If I am thirst and you are the immortal water, why do you not quench my thirst once and for all? If am the river and you are the sea, when will I rest in you?

I thirst for you; I cannot live without you. Where are you, where are you hiding? This is faith: arms uplifted, feet in motion, eternally searching; essentially a pilgrimage.

Extracted from the book “Journey Towards God” by Father Ignacio Larrañaga