Questions

I've been able to read the past couple days and I'm enjoying it. I'm definitely going to have to make more time for it than I normally do when school starts up again. Its a pretty central part of my new resolution. It has come from what I've read in Velvet Elvis, the first chapter, the Questions section. I pretty much wanna just post the whole section, but here are few great pieces.

"Maybe that is who God is looking for - people who don't just sit there and mindlessly accept whatever comes their way."

"Central to the Christian experience is the art of questioning God. Not belligerent, arrogant questions that have no respect for our maker, but naked, honest, vulnerable, raw questions, arising out of the awe that comes from engaging the living God.

This type of questioning frees us. Frees us from having to have it all figured out. Frees us from having answers to everything. Frees us from always having to be right. It allows us to have moments when we come to the end of our ability to comprehend. Moments when the silence is enough."

"Being a Christian is more about celebrating mystery than conquering it."

I want this year to be in pursuit of God. I want to give up my independence and an attitude that says that I can do it on my own. I grew up thinking that I knew the answers to all the questions, but that's only because I wasn't asking the hard ones. I think that when I begin to ask those tough questions, I'll begin discover some answers. I won't discover all of them, I know, but I can rest in the assurance that its ok that I don't know. I want to give up my control issues and embrace the beauty of the mystery of God and life.

So my new resolution, for my life, not just this year, is to ask more questions. Ask other people questions, ask God questions, ask myself questions.