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The Gift of Asking Questions
by Eliza Mariana Wilson Have you spent all your life looking for answers? So have I. I know the feeling very well. The longing, the aching inside, the endless search... But then a time came when I realized that, in worrying about the answers, I had completely forgotten to thank God for the questions. In trying to see, I have become blind. In trying to understand, I have become ignorant. In trying to satisfy my selfish thirst for knowledge, I have failed to see the real miracle. And the real miracle is not in finding the answers, but in the very fact that we are capable of asking the questions. God created us in His own image. He gave us a mind to understand and a heart to wonder, the longing to create and the power to love. That is a miracle in itself, a miracle we often take for granted. We moan about our ignorance, but the worse ignorance of all is in not realizing what we've already got. Life is a blessing even if we don't understand it. Some would say precisely because we don't understand it. The tree of good and evil is still out there in the garden, tempting us, luring us from the distance. Its fruits are among us, scattered everywhere in our world, but are we mature enough to taste them? We long for the ultimate truth, but are we physically and spiritually equipped to cope with it without turning it into a weapon of destruction? As long as we keep asking, we are like children staring in the shop window and crying for that new toy. Maybe all it takes is for us to realize it's less about what we want or what we think we need and more about what we can give to make the best of what we've got. Maybe this is the bridge that could take us to the ultimate truth and the final answer we are seeking. Maybe we'll know we're ready for the answers only when we stop asking the questions and start living the miracle. Eliza Mariana Wilson is the author of the inspirational blog Eliza's Prayer Box. For more of her inspirational articles, poems and prayers, you are welcome to visit http://prayer-box.blogspot.com. Article Source: http://www.faithwriters.com |