Taking the first step

Today I want to go back a few years to my Alma Mater in England.

I did my post secondary education at the College of the Venerable Bede in Durham City.

Undoubtedly my favourite lecturers were Paddy McDermott, the college chaplain and G.N.G.Smith who was a professor in classical English.

Both had formidable intellects.
Professor Smith (affectionatley known as Ganges) would sometimes say: "Think, gentlemen, THINK"

All his life Ganges had thought, and when he was in his fiftieth year he could think no more.

He had reached the ceiling of his reason and was trapped.
Where was he to go?

It was then that he made his first small step of faith. He became as a little child and trusted in the person of Jesus Christ.
Immediately he passed through the ceiling of reason and entered a room of limitless proportion.

He would tell us poor, pea brained students that, after making that first step of faith, everything began to make sense again.

And how far was that step? About ten inches long, from his head to his heart.