15 January 2012

Unresolved or Unresolvable? Learning to Trust

One of the many purposes for this blog in my mind is to be a means through which I can write out and explore issues, topics, and thoughts that I am considering. Often, if I come to a conclusion about something after considering it for a length of time and think that conclusion to be worthwhile, I record my observations and thought process here. However, sometimes there is an issue on my mind that I find myself wanting to write about, wanting to explore, but somehow my thoughts always come to a brick wall. No matter how I mentally examine the issue, I can reach no conclusion about it. As a result, they remain unresolved mysteries to me. It is thoughts like these that constantly remind me that not everything can be explained. This frustrates me, as someone who very much likes to have everything make sense. I like to understand everything that occurs, everything I know. I hate it when something happens that I can't explain or that I don't understand. However, over the years, I have been forced to learn that there are certain things that simply cannot be explained, no matter how much thought or energy we invest in it. Now, of course, numerous things that I do not understand actually do have an explanation of which I am unaware and, as a result, cause questions that I cannot answer. This is only natural, as it is not possible for one person to know all things. Regardless, there are still many things in this complex world that no one has been able to truly resolve or explain. It is these things that can keep me up at night, until I reach that moment when I realize I must learn to be content in not always understanding everything. It would be prideful of me to think that I could. Though it goes against my nature to come to such a conclusion, it is one that must be reached, lest I become mad with wondering. This does not mean that it is bad to spend time considering things on a deeper level. Nothing could be further from the truth. However, it does mean that while considering the issues and thoughts of life, it is necessary to remember that we cannot always resolve everything. That is where humility, trust, contentment, and also a grain of patience come into play: all truly important characteristics that, though at times difficult to develop, are priceless in the end.

4 comments:

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  2. Very interesting thoughts, dear sister. And I see you've changed the look of your blog again. I like it. :)

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  3. I like this one very much and I especially like the title....Learning to trust.

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  4. I like to think that God made some of us very curious so that we're never satisfied with a superficial relationship with Him. This is so very true of those of us with a "thinking" bent. We want to have life all figured out in neat, little categories, but God reminds us of the depths and angles of His world and His person that we'll spend our whole lives trying to plumb. Job says it best, I think: "Indeed these are the mere edges of His ways, and how small a whisper we hear of Him." (26:14)

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