Chapter 21 of Hope: A User's Manual - ... I find hope in that there’s more to understand, more to experience, more to see, more to learn. There is more truth, wisdom, and beauty out there for us to receive, chew over, integrate, and share.
I’m getting better with ambiguity as I get older. Our world now demands it, but I find I’m getting “more ok” with it. Sometimes even excited about what lies ahead. We have so many opportunities to learn and grow.
Thank you, Barb! It’s funny. I feel a bit like our world reveals that ambiguity but at the same time so many of our structures and systems are set up around certainty. And we find ourselves living in between.
The quote from Plink reminded me of something that I heard Garrison Keillor say at an event once that has stuck with me for almost twenty years now:
"God prefers honest doubt to false piety."
This chapter connecting trauma to hope reminded me of the Gospel of John with its theme of flesh. When she was talking about how our body remembers, even Jesus'resurrected body held the scars of his crucifixion. As the title of the popular book on trauma says, the body keeps the score. But the body can also experience resurrection.
Barbara, I was basically commenting in synchronicity to what you write—comfort with ambiguity seems to get better with age! While I feel angst with unknowns politically at this current time, I do NOT feel angst over what I’m uncertain with as I follow the Christ. I am reading River Jordan’s book on (being a ) Christian Mystic and I find comfort and HOPE in the uncertain wonders that she finds herself experiencing. As do I!
I’m getting better with ambiguity as I get older. Our world now demands it, but I find I’m getting “more ok” with it. Sometimes even excited about what lies ahead. We have so many opportunities to learn and grow.
Thank you, Barb! It’s funny. I feel a bit like our world reveals that ambiguity but at the same time so many of our structures and systems are set up around certainty. And we find ourselves living in between.
Yes. And it feels like so much of the reactionary politics we see from some is almost entirely based on their inability to handle ambiguity.
The quote from Plink reminded me of something that I heard Garrison Keillor say at an event once that has stuck with me for almost twenty years now:
"God prefers honest doubt to false piety."
This chapter connecting trauma to hope reminded me of the Gospel of John with its theme of flesh. When she was talking about how our body remembers, even Jesus'resurrected body held the scars of his crucifixion. As the title of the popular book on trauma says, the body keeps the score. But the body can also experience resurrection.
Barbara, I was basically commenting in synchronicity to what you write—comfort with ambiguity seems to get better with age! While I feel angst with unknowns politically at this current time, I do NOT feel angst over what I’m uncertain with as I follow the Christ. I am reading River Jordan’s book on (being a ) Christian Mystic and I find comfort and HOPE in the uncertain wonders that she finds herself experiencing. As do I!
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