Questions

Summer seems to be coming to a close. Pretty swiftly I might add.

This could be seen quite a few ways. It could either be a blessing, a curse, both, or maybe even neither. Either way, it’s another chapter in your story. The only way you know how it turns out is if you keep writting the story, right?

Between trying to figure out when you’re moving for the fall, what on campus job you’ll get, or where you’ll be this time next year can get exhausting. In the mist of these questions let us not forget some of the age old ones that seem to be popping up lately as well.

We all know those age old questions that we’re going to keep asking until the end of time or until we die, which ever comes first. It’s interesting how we can find our answers in so many different places, yet they’re not really that far apart depending on how we think of them.

Some rely on science for their evidence, some rely on religious practices, and others rely on something else. It’s really dependant on how we use these tools and the way we look at them.

I mean none of them can really give us whole answers….or can they?

Perhaps if we all stopped looking at them as individual elements and looked at them together than perhaps that never ending leaky faucet of curiosity would actually get fixed. That is one of our big missions in life, whether we admit it or not. We’re all just looking for our next fix. Some just last longer than others.

If we find evidence in science our total existance cannot be explained. If they had figured everything out then we wouldn’t need to keep researching it. Religious practice comes in many forms of scripture, ritual, tradition, and so one. Still, it can only explain so much. The question of why could be answered if perhaps we looked at the two together.

I’m pretty sure pork wouldn’t have kept too well during the time of the exodus, maybe that’s why God ordered his people not to eat it. Who’s to say the big bang and evolution didn’t happen, but who’s to say God didn’t cause a star system to explode, or make evolution happen in a second rather than thousands of years.

If you look at them together, maybe we’ll realize that some explanations are evidence of His greatness, and thus make more sense of why we do things.

Yet, still so many questions can’t be answered. There are still gaps to be filled. That’s brings that third tool to help fix the faucet.

Faith…

It could be any denomination, not even belong to a religion specifically, but we all have faith in something. That something is what puts our mind at rest, or drives us crazy and asking questions. It either tells us it’s ok not to know ever answer, or maybe we should have something more to rely on.

It’s up to you to decide where you want your answers to come from, but know it’s ok to be scared of not having an answer. Life will go on whether you get it or not.

There is a very fine line between our questions and answers of any nature. There is a small gap where the two eventually meet, and that line is our faith (it’s a very pretty shade of grey).

It’s pretty scary and amazing to look at faith as a thin line, just like the line at the end of a page in a story. You have to take hold of the line at the edge of the book to see what happens next.

Keep turning those pages, because it’s the only way to get any answers.