"I would like to beg you, dear friend, 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, Letters to a Young Poet, pp. 34-35

Meditation:

The biggest step of discipleship from my vantage point is acknowledging that we do not have all the answers. Ironically, it is also very good training for motherhood. Early in the relationship between mother and child (or God and disciple), the answers come so easily. Yet, eventually, we find ourselves groping for answers that seem out of our reach. There are not answers, but one Answer, Who is pulling us close to His Heart for all eternity. Let the mystery of God speak to you in your questions. Meditate this week on the things in this world that trouble you. Consider how the child within might lead you to an inner peace with all that you do not understand.

Bible Verses for Additional Meditation

Matthew 13:1-23    Isaiah 11:1-9

Prayer:

Jesus my Lord, grow within my heart and give me the courage to keep asking the questions. Lead me on to that blessed place where there are no more questions, but only You, my merciful and blessed Answer, Amen.