This week I share a few resources. Below is a reflection that teaches us to be OK with uncertainty and doubt, and also to remain hopeful and filled with courage. I find myself living with both of these realities in my day to day rollercoaster of life…walking my dog Bingo is helpful! I recently viewed this Mumford & Sons clip on YouTube and found it uplifting, and I hope you do too…wait for the sheer joy embodied by the smile on Jon Batiste’s face as he concludes the song with a solo. Blessings on your week ahead!
“For the Gift of Doubt” – Kate Bowler
I long for understanding,
but life is full of unanswered questions.
Oh God, reveal to me what I need to know now,
and for the rest . . .
teach me how to live with so much uncertainty.
Blessed are we who come to you in the discomfort of our doubt,
for we trust that our honest unknowing is a truer and better prayer
than bootstrapping efforts at certainty.
Blessed are we, receiving the gift of doubt,
for we trust that it is a doorway, freeing us to become
all that we could not otherwise have known.
Blessed are we, remembering that you hold all things together.
You are the invisible scaffolding that supports us,
the canopy of love that covers us in the present,
the stable pillars, sunk deep into our past,
and the sparrow that flies confidently toward the future
bearing for us the peace we could never have attained for ourselves.
Blessed are we, settling into the trust that there are things we can’t know,
settling into the humility that knows this one thing:
that we are of the earth, while you bear up the universe.
Keeping the Faith 