casey gerald
I haven’t been taking time to watch TED Talks, but the title at the top of “This Week on TED.com” captured my interest—The Gospel of Doubt. I saw two words that gave me a reason to watch/listen. The title resonated because I’ve begun to wonder if certainty is over rated. Some forms of certainty start to take on a similarity with arrogance. Recently I’ve considered making more room for ambiguity. And I’m fond of the Alfred Lord Tennyson quote: “There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.”
I listened to Casey Gerald’s presentation and enjoyed it. Then I had to sit and think about whether his story has lessons for me. [pause] Weak answers for significant issues don't give me much satisfaction. But I'm not the risk taker that Casey Gerald is. I tend to stay the course even after I see that my plan or position might be inadequate. I'm patient to a fault (and perhaps that is a fault).
Gerald concludes: “It will not be our blind faith but our humble doubt that shines a little light into the darkness of our lives and our world, and lets us raise our voice…to say simply: there must be another way.”
Yes. My apparent inability to see a better way is no indication that it doesn't exist.