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What is the relationship between faith and doubt?
FAILED EXORCISM
I have faith yet doubt clings to it
not just a little doubt
not just a little faith
but a perpetual grand struggle
even when I reject its premises
faith lingers
a shadow in my thoughts
reflecting my yearning for meaning
for a response to the vastness of existence
for a recognition of something beyond the self
I sit in ambiguity
haunted by faith’s echoes
doubt does not obliterate my faith
but shapes it
turning certainty
into a lingering question
in that tension
I find a new kind of honesty
a willingness to live in paradox
faith and doubt serve each other
doubt sharpens faith
untested it would break