Kairos or Question?

Do you ever feel like you get stuck in the first half of the kairos circle, reflecting and reflecting and never really getting to a point of clarity that you can respond to?

There are ways to try to get unstuck, certainly - talking with a trusted friend who’ll have a different perspective, as we talked about back on Tuesday; or trying out a new “response,” a new way of living into the situation, just to see what happens, inside you and around you.

Sometimes, though, we may just be in a season of wonder, a season of questioning. And God blesses those, too. Look at this tender description of Mary, Jesus’ mother, in his days of infancy, with so many wonderful, inexplicable things happening around her:

But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart. - Luke 2:19

What are the questions you’re pondering these days? Do you feel the freedom to wonder? Take a minute to read the quote below slowly, and sit quietly with Jesus, noticing what’s rising up inside of you.

“Be patient towards all that is unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms, like books written in a foreign tongue. Do not now strive to uncover answers: they cannot be given you because you have not been able to live them. And what matters is to live everything. Live the questions for now. Perhaps then you will gradually, without noticing it, live your way into the answer, one distant day in the future.” - Rainer Maria Rilke