Retreat!
So, as I very cryptically posted the other day, I went on a retreat this weekend with Campus Crusade.
Great fun was had.
I met a lot of amazing people, and really got to know in-depth some people I already knew. I even leanred how to two-step! Though I had to dignify country as music in order to dance to it, and I was none too pleased about that. Because country isn't music. It's... noise.
The speaker was amazing. He speaks the way I think and write, and I found him to be engaging and witty. His words stuck in my mind, and he really made me think. It was good.
He posed a basic question that, I think, really impacted a lot of the students there.
A lot of us know in our head something is true, yet have a hard time believing it true based on our experiences. There's a gap there, and it needs to be reconciled. So how does reconciliation come?
He didn't answer the question for us. And none were to be had come Sunday. But his words still echo in my mind. Obviously the easiest way to believe something true is to experience it in our lives. But when experience is lacking, how does one bridge the gap? Can a bridge be built without experience? Or does our experience lead to the belief? Does the belief lead to the experience?
It's an interesting question, even seperated from the religious connotations in which it was asked.
It's something I'm definitely going to be mulling over for some time.
Like I said, great fun was had.
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