[Alffe]

"In contrast to the suggestion that faith is "believing what you know ain't so," perhaps faith is believing that there's no way of knowing whether it's so or not.

It's not a matter of faith to believe that if you mix red with blue you'll get purple, or that one and one makes two.

In our extremity of wanting to know for sure that our loved one...understood us, forgave us, is happily in Heaven, watches over us, ______(we can fill in our own), there is no way to know.

What is at issue is whether God, the universe, is to be trusted. That, too, is a matter of faith, and from it come all manner of subsidiary questions.

A man well schooled in theology and life says that his answer to these questions of afterlife is that whatever wonderful scenario we can imagine for life after death, God's gifts will be infinitely greater, and suprising. Not a bad conjecture when one is mulling things over. And over. And over.

Healing After Loss by Martha Whitmore Hickman