Isn’t it interesting how different stages in our lives bring to us a variety of questions and answers? I can remember being in my twenties and being so hungry for answers to the many questions that I had about life.The eagerness of youth is complementary to a hunger for answers. As I’ve become older, I seem to have more patience with myself for not having all the answers. Someone near and dear to me expressed that it’s okay not to have all the answers. As I pondered his response, I can still feel a lightness coming over me as I sat with that and thought, “Yeah, I think I can do that!” He also referred me to the quote below:
...I would like to beg you, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.
~Rainer Maria Rilke, 1903 in Letters to a Young Poet
In the GOOGLE age, we have questions…we get answers…almost immediately, at least as far as matters of trivia and information are concerned. I still have a lot of LIFE questions (don’t we all), but I’ve developed more of a patience and willingness to acknowledge that maybe God doesn’t intend for me to have an answer just yet. In the meantim
e, I will appreciate the mystery and embrace the questions as partners to my journey. And hopefully I can raise my children to not to expect Google-timed answers to questions that require a lifetime of living.Matthew 16:17 Jesus came back, "God bless you, Simon, son of Jonah! You didn't get that answer out of books or from teachers. My Father in heaven, God himself, let you in on this secret of who I really am. (MSG)
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I’m glad you posted that Peanuts cartoon. Now I don’t feel so bad about the question that has puzzled me for years. When Peter walked on the water, did it feel slippery like walking on ice or could he dig his toes in to step over the waves? As I have aged, I have discovered the answers to many more important questions – but that one still puzzles me.
I love to ponder the unanswerables about God especially when enjoying the richness of his creation. And strange as it may seem I find it strengthens my faith. The fact that there is so much we don't know about him just makes him all the more awesome.
I often wonder if God is still creating somewhere out in the heavens? An Artist's creativity does not cease with one piece of art is this the same with God's creativity? Has he made more planets like earth with people. Did Jesus have to die for them too or did they maintain God's covenant with them?
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I love what you wrote. Thank you so much for adding to my blog. I never thought about God creating like that and continuing to create. Isn't it fun to share these thoughts with each other? :0)
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