If you haven't looked at the most recent posting on the Painted Prayer Book, take some time to do so. The reflection that Rev. Richardson offers about the questions that met the healed blind man in John:9 is profound!
I appreciate the blessing of questions. Whatever situation lies before me, it has life and the possiblity of movement as long as I can perceive a question about it. Having a question about something also acknowledges a relationship with the someone or someplace that can provide the responsive answer. A questioning life has color and depth. A questioning life also has hope.
Life's deepest questions may not have practical or logical answers. At some point (with some questions) my mind realizes that final satisfaction is not possible: at that point my faith moves into the foreground. Faith is the aspect of life where questions don't receive firm, definable answers. As I pray the questions and live the questions, I find myself experiencing certainty and contentment in the understanding that God "knows". My questions are the way that I sit at the feet of the Lord and dwell as an inquisitive child.
Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers. Rainer Maria Rilke
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