I don’t know if you’ve ever tried to nail Jelly to the wall (Jello to my American friends). It’s not the most straightforward or productive thing you’re ever likely to try.
Beliefs are a bit like that, they’re slippery blighters. Because they change in the light of experiences, and experiences are happening all the time – they’re happening right now. One single experience can change what you believe dramatically, like when I watched Scotland beat England in the Calcutta Cup match on the 17th of March 1990, and I began to believe that Scotland were indeed a brilliant Rugby team. The following nine successive English wins were experiences that somehow shifted my belief. But I kept the faith… more or less.
It can be frightening to feel once apparently solid beliefs slipping away, but it’s the nature of their mutability that this will happen. Sand runs through open fingers, Jelly doesn’t take too kindly to being nailed to plaster work, Rugby players forget how to score tries, everything changes, everything is in process, nothing stays the same.
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