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A quote by Madeleine L’Engle<\/strong> to ponder:<\/p>\n

It is a frightening thing for many people to let go, to have faith in that which they cannot completely know and control.
\n      But how do we know<\/em>?
\n      We’ve lost much of the richness of that word. Nowadays, to know<\/em> means to know with the intellect. But it is a much deeper word than that. Adam knew<\/em> Eve. To know deeply is far more than to know consciously. In the realm of faith I know far more than I can believe with my finite mind. I know that a loving God will not abandon what he creates. I know that the human calling is cocreation with this power of love. I know that ‘neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, not things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.’
\n      But in this limited world we tend to lose this kind of knowing, and this loss has permeated our fiction as well as our prayer.\n<\/div>\n

 
\n~ from Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith & Art<\/a><\/em>, p. 173
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  A quote by Madeleine L’Engle to ponder: It is a frightening thing for many people to let go, to have faith in that which they cannot completely know and control.       But how do we know?       We’ve lost much of the richness of that word. Nowadays, to know means to know with the intellect. 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