The Mystery of Questions: God's Love Endures

Do you let yourself ask questions? Do you allow space for other people to ask questions? Do you let the questions open your soul to the transformation of God in your life or do you let other people answer those questions with their opinions? What guides you through your questions? “True guides…are filled with wisdom but are not answer people. Instead, they call us to live with the questions in a different way…” (from Robert Wicks, psychologist professor at Loyola University, noted in book: Open the Door by Joyce Rupp, page 26). Who are those people who don't give you answers, but guide you through your questions?

Quick answers suffocate people from a life with roots and depth. Do you let the gospel of Christ speak or do you let a person tell you the 6 ways to a happy life or how you should do this or that? How do you let your questions open your heart, eyes, and mind to a deeper life with God?

Dawn Markova is a thinker who has a PH.D in psychology and education and In her writing “I will not Die an Unlived Life” she offers three questions for inner reflection:
1. What is it too soon for, too late for, or just the right time for?
2. When you are very still in a place without words, steeped in silence, when the world
is elsewhere with its noise and motion, what are the sacred hungers that echo inside
of you?
3. Who am I when I stop doing?

Life with God is a mystery. You are called to live life to the fullest in that mystery. You are called to ask questions and live in the questions. What are the questions you have right now? Aare you settling with the answers or are you open to the Word and Work of God who is present and transformational in your life and in this world and in your questions. Having faith is believing in God no matter what; regardless of what questions you hold.

“Life brings forth questions.
God is transformational.
We, the people, are a mystery.
As the people of God, we are called
to be open to the transformation of God and the power of the Holy Spirit in our lives.
We are called to seek God with our heart, soul, and mind,
to love our neighbors as ourselves.
We are called to live in the mystery of the questions that emerge,
and seek God, rather than to seek answers to the questions that will remain a mystery.
This is living a life of faith.”
~Noel Christine Kahl

A Prayer
Creator God,
You are our God, we live in the joy, knowing that by your grace we are saved, not by what we do. You are our creator of life and guide in this world. Give us the strength to live in the mystery, in the mystery of questions. Open our hearts and minds to the transformation you bring to our lives and to who you have created us to be in this world. Lead us and guide us to walk in you will and your ways and to live in the mystery that will always be in the questions that we may have as we live life in this world. Through your mercy and love our faith in you is forever. Amen.

Doors

Doors; I am not talking about a band, but I am talking about a door that all people walk through each day. Doors are often either open or closed. "A door is truly an amazing thing. Closed, it is an agent of separation...but swing it open and it becomes an invitation, uniting what before was separated," (Drew Leder).

The metaphor of a door offers a way to name how we are in relationship with God and how we see and experience the world. Doors are a natural encounter in life. Sometimes people call doors, doorways. Doors are integral in the physical world, they often let a person in or out of a location. Doors are also an integral part of our spiritual lives. You can't just look at doors and expect something to happen, you will go no where. A person must open or close a door for any change to happen.

John Tarrant once told me that I will encounter many open doors in life and that I must wait until one falls off the hinges and then I know that is where I am called to be.

THINKING ABOUT YOUR OWN LIFE...
What does the doors of your heart look like? How are those doors opened or closed? Why?
How are you discovering the mystery of who you are?
How do you acknowledge the presence of God in your life?