Does truth change?  Or is it our perception of it?  Over the last few weeks, I've been reading, on and off, a book containing reflections from various philosophers and theologians about how, in the course of their careers, how they've changed their minds in regard to their ideas of truth.
     In every instance, no one has found cause to abandon the truths on which they've built their lives and intellectual systems.  Despite everything they've learned and regardless of where their lives have taken them, they remain, to a person, committed to the truths with which they began.
     Yet every one of these thinkers has changed in the way they understand these truths. Without letting go of absolute truth, they realize that as they have aged, as they have experienced different life situations and circumstances, their engagement with this truth has changed.
     As it should.  Truth, absolute truth, absolute truth as defined by and embodied in a transcendent God or, at the very least, a universal moral compass, will never change. But we will.  While we continue to live committed to the idea of absolute truth (and in truth--no pun intended--even to deny absolute truth is in fact an absolute truth), we are made to explore it afresh each day.  Absolute truth is absolute, but not static.  That's its beauty:  wherever we are, literally and figuratively, we can always find it.
     And we can always find God.