The reign of God is truly at hand-no farther away than my hand moving this pen, or your hand holding that page. Our faith and our hands equal the means to a new reality. The truth in question is the faith of the gospel. One such experiment in faith is to join friends going to Iraq, taking medicines in the hope of saving a few lives and breaking an evil law. If our faith is deep enough, totally reliant on our Loving God, anything is possible-perhaps nothing that we want.
Faith exceeds calculation.
Every experiment in faith is another go at realizing what Jesus said is true. These are frightening readings. They prepare us for the Holy Spirit and for God's movement, a movement of mercy and compassion that will put us, like Jeremiah, in conflict with our world. When we have experienced God's mercy and love, we see those around us with God's loving eyes. We are forced to speak words of justice, words of peace.