Nurture the flame and try to ignore the frozen night. If you cannot accept God as a person but only as a Power, then hold on to the Power. If you reject Christ as divine but affirm a remarkable humanity, then cling to that. Start with the affirmations you can make. There is no beauty or sanity in a life that hears only the scratch on the record and not the music.
Chronic cynicism is a devastating disease.
And when you have done these things and some doubt yet remains, then accept the reality of life. The reality that sin, sickness, death, and doubt will not be totally abolished until Jesus comes. Then determine that as you wait for that day, you will not permit the urge to believe to extinguish the urge to doubt. Also determine not to allow the urge to doubt to extinguish the urge to believe. Used by permission of Good News Unlimited.