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Today's Devotional

St. Thomas doubted.

Skepticism is a degree of unbelief: equally therefore it is a degree of belief. It may be a degree of faith.

St. Thomas doubted, but simultaneously he loved. Whence it follows that his case was all along hopeful.

If we are spirit-broken by doubts of our own, if we are half heart-broken by a friend’s doubts, let us beg faith for our friend and for ourselves; only still more urgently let us beg love. For love is more potent to breed faith than faith to breed love. Because there is no comparison between the two: “God is Love;” and that which God is must rank higher, and show itself mightier than aught which God is not.

Nevertheless, faith also is required of us, and faith overflows with blessings. “If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes. . . . Lord, I believe; help my unbelief.”

“Elisha prayed, and said, ‘Lord, I pray, open his eyes, that he may see.’ And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw.”

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About the author and the source

Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) earned recognition as one of England’s finest poets. Unlike her more sensual brother, Dante Gabriel Rossetti (leader of the pre-Raphaelite painters) she was deeply imbued with Christian sensibility and wrote such books as Called to be Saints. Today’s selection is from her daily readings, Time Flies.