Annie Dillard describes two encounters with a mother and then her young boy, both of whom individually inquired about her salvation, asking, “Do you know the Lord as your personal savior?” The mother appeared surprised when Dillard answered yes. In the second encounter, the boy was surprised when she answered, “‘Not only that. … I know your mother’” (Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to Talk [New York: Harper & Row, 1982], 79–80). Both were grateful and relieved, if somewhat dubious of her ...
Desire For Assurance
