An Answer to Nothingness

Frederic Remington, “The Cowboy,” 1902, oil on canvas. "Amon Carter Museum of American Art. https://g.co/arts/1TqhjnxTMJ1Nuwqi7

“Faith in the end is simply saying Yes to this holy adventure of losing oneself and is, therefore, in its innermost core simply true love.”
Joseph Ratzinger (The Sabbath of History, page 35)

Noble proposals abound about how Christians can meet our cultural moment, a time when people despair of purpose. Plenty are promising. Whatever they are, they will bear fruit only if the Christians who live them carry this sense of adventure — wild risk and purposeful promise in the person of Christ. That adventure, it seems, is the only answer to our nothingness.