Questions

The only way to know the answers to life's questions is to live...at least that is what I am told. Or it is what the poet, Rilke, said.

"...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."

Oh to have patience with and love the questions! I suppose, though, that the questions are the great adventure of life. We don't know how things will turn out in the end. And the only way to find out how anything will turn out is to get up and live life. I am full of questions - mostly of the "what should I do with my life" variety. Like should I stay in Texas? Should I try to be a lawyer? Should I move to Utah? I sometimes wish I could be told what to do...and I think it would be so much easier.

It wouldn't. The only think I can really do is try, look, pray, and try some more. I do believe that answers come through living and trying. And of course there is the Spirit. I know that I am not alone in my "quest" for the answers. As it turns out, it seems to me that it all comes back to faith. I have to have faith in God that He will guide me by the Spirit to the right outcomes and in myself that I will have the courage to live the questions.