"True knowledge," said Socrates, "consists in knowing that you know nothing."  How very true.  How do we know that we are really knowing anything?  All we know is ourselves and our historical context.

     What if, then, there is no God?  How would we know?  Would the world still be here?  And how would we know that?  Because we are creatures of presence, creatures who exist in active presence, we affirm Socrates' insight every moment of the day:  we only know when we know nothing.
     On the other hand, if we consider something that, in some ways, seems to evade conventional knowing, say, faith, we wonder anew about Socrates' observations.  If by faith we are describing a trust in what we do not see but are persuaded, for any number of reasons, is there, we are saying that we know nothing, fully, about what we see and experience in this reality.
     Genuine faith, that is, a trust in God, means acknowledging that, yes, we know that we know, but that we ultimately know nothing.  We admit we cannot fathom the fullness of what is really true about time, space, and sentient existence.
     We walk in a elusive world.