Re: Soren Kierkegaard on Faith and Reason

In teaching a child to walk you get in front of the child and turn towards 
it. You do not walk alongside the child but are the goal toward which the 
child is to walk. Even though you stand so far away that you cannot reach 
the child, you stretch out your arms and motion with them as if you
already 
embraced the child, although there is still some distance between you and 
the child. That much solicitude you have, but more solicitous you cannot 
be, for then the child does not learn to walk. So it is with Christ.
Christ 
gets in front of us, does not walk beside his disciples, but is himself
the 
goal toward which we are to strive while we are learning to walk alone. 
There he stands at the goal, turning toward us and stretching out his arms

– just as a mother does.