Truth

Truth is not a thing we own and define. Truth, as scripture says ‘set us free’ and Jesus says ‘I am the way, the life and the truth’. Truth is a path we follow, it is a journey we take. Truth is not something we own but something owns us. Truth happens to us, breaking through a barrier, upsetting our expectations, leading us to a new way of being. And everytime we think we own truth we find we need more truth, another truth to set us free from the expectations we built the last time we stopped or paused in our journey.
Maybe this is an idea worth exploring in ‘Truth’ or ‘Grace’. The truth we need to be set free from is that we can ever know truth, that Truth capital T is something definable and ownable. The same with Grace. We are saved by Grace but everytime we start to define Grace then we have entered a law. Grace is the spirit of God saving us despuite the laws we create in order to be saved.
Truth then is that which frees us, is the way we follow, the journey we go on to be in relationship with God, God’s people and God’s creation. When we belive we can define Truth then it is truth that can set us free from the heresy of absolutes. This is what Thomas Merton says about the devil: The devils world is a world of absolutes because there is no grace there. God is the God of grace, of pluralities and journeies (my paraphrase).