Faith As Alternating Current
Sermons on the Second Readings
Some troublesome things about the Christian life are its mood swings. These are not the common mood swings of everyday life, nor are they the mood swings indicating some psychological condition. They are the distressing oscillations between radiant and joyful faith, and times when we are unable to have any sense of God's sustaining presence. The early pioneers in the development of electricity assumed that electrical current ran constantly without interruption through the wires. Edison held this view. The difficulty was that direct current could not be sustained over long distances.