God Is Not Reasonable

The local newspaper in the town where Mother Macrina lived decided to publish a series of articles about the different religions that people in the area belonged to. They asked representatives of each religion to write to the paper explaining their own practices and beliefs. After reading some of the articles, a man came to tell Mother Macrina what he had learned.

"Reading these accounts of various religious beliefs," he said, "I could not help but realize how little I knew of religion, especially my own. And, that perhaps it was just as well."

"Why do you say that?" she asked.

"All those 'truths' that God is believed to have revealed about himself to different people and at different times led me to think that God was either himself confused about who he really was or that he wanted to make us confused."

"Maybe he did," said Mother Macrina.

"You cannot mean that, Mother!"

"Oh yes I can," she replied. "Confusion is not always bad news. For some of us it may be the only way in which we can learn that the truth of God is beyond anything that our minds can think of or explain."

"But that makes faith in God seem unreasonable!" he exclaimed.

"God is not reasonable, my friend," Mother Macrina replied.