Life and faith are less about answering the questions that are handed to us or the questions we want answered or the questions whose iron-clad answers will give us a comfortable position and advantage, than they are about wrestling with the deeper questions that scare us. It is when we cease and desist with the pursuit of easy answers to the less important questions that we will find the energy and courage to do the critical work of reframing the questions.
Truth, in all its beauty, is less about certitude with regard to common questions, and more about struggle with the kinds of questions whose answers may never be fully known or understood. God did not put us here to confidently conquer the content of junior high questions, but to risk living with ever-evolving ones. The important question is not, "What are the answers to the questions people are asking?" but "What are the questions we are afraid to ask, much less answer?" It is here, in the deep places, where meaning and purpose find their roots.
© 2011 Todd Jenkins
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