There is nothing as shattering as having your entire belief system swept out from under you.

As a student of Theology (among many other subjects), the barometer of a good school of Religion is one that completely tears down your worldview and forces you to build it again. It’s thanks to that process, done a number of times in my life, it has built a propensity towards thinking differently.

The first few times it happened was demoralizing, but it underscored an important point that you cannot always assume your worldview is true.

It might be, but you need to hold that assumption up to a different lens and see.

When it’s been tested, carried through the fire, refined, shattered, rebuilt and solidified, see if it can go through the process again. Nothing in life stagnates and the same should hold true for our own thoughts.

This doesn’t make you a person who stands solidly on an ever-changing reality, but rather someone who is comfortable with the ever shifting sands beneath us.

It also helps you to see clearly and know where to put your foot down.