I consider this the one indispensable gift from God, and one that has been lacking from my life much of the last 5 years. And honestly those have been 5 hellish years of uncertainty and struggles all the way to bottom of my soul. My mind and soul have been in a bursting saturated state, and . . . and a sated mind/soul is a terrible experience. It wants nothing but escape. The experience is far worse than boredom and we all know what stupid things people do when they are bored! This is worse by far.
This is when you will consider alternatives you never would have under any other circustances. You will throw away 20 years of work in your profession in a heartbeat, to alleviate this particular form of hell. You will view faith and life in ways that previously would have been unthinkable. You would consider walking away from the King, the Kingdom, the Church or your Faith, only for a measure of relief. Time moves as slowly as continental drift. There seems to be no possibility of escape.
Curiosity cures all of this. Curiosity about what God might do next, or with whom He might do it. (all interest in this is totally absent in the lack-of-curiosity-state). Curiosity about the amazing possibilities with God . . . curiosity about where He might send you next . . . curiosity about why you survived this or that . . . curiosity about what role you might play in this next step in building the Kingdom . . . curiosity about when God will answer your prayer . . . curiosity about God Himself and what He is about at the moment in your world . . . and a million other curiosities are what make life worth living.
I am actually getting a bit curious these days . . . its been a long long time. It is still early . . . I am not sure what this means yet . . . mainly I am curious about curiosity at the moment. But that is a start.
Some call it wonder and some call it awe and I am sure it probably has a dozen other possible names, but without it, life is hell on earth.
This is when you will consider alternatives you never would have under any other circustances. You will throw away 20 years of work in your profession in a heartbeat, to alleviate this particular form of hell. You will view faith and life in ways that previously would have been unthinkable. You would consider walking away from the King, the Kingdom, the Church or your Faith, only for a measure of relief. Time moves as slowly as continental drift. There seems to be no possibility of escape.
Curiosity cures all of this. Curiosity about what God might do next, or with whom He might do it. (all interest in this is totally absent in the lack-of-curiosity-state). Curiosity about the amazing possibilities with God . . . curiosity about where He might send you next . . . curiosity about why you survived this or that . . . curiosity about what role you might play in this next step in building the Kingdom . . . curiosity about when God will answer your prayer . . . curiosity about God Himself and what He is about at the moment in your world . . . and a million other curiosities are what make life worth living.
I am actually getting a bit curious these days . . . its been a long long time. It is still early . . . I am not sure what this means yet . . . mainly I am curious about curiosity at the moment. But that is a start.
Some call it wonder and some call it awe and I am sure it probably has a dozen other possible names, but without it, life is hell on earth.
2 comments:
That certainly was a rather curious post!
I am curious, curious about why you change your layout to this kind of pink/white thing. I liked black better than white, although white wouldn't be all that bad if it wasn't mixed with pink. Maybe black and pink.
Does this have something to do with Breast Cancer?
By the way, I love the post.
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