"...not because you've got it all sorted out, not because you've understood all the answers to all the questions..."
This message (link below) was a huge gift just now, in this present darkness I'm walking through. I've been listening to NT Wright a lot lately, and it's been an enormous boon.
Highly recommend, if you're wrestling with the questions-without-answers...and recorded at my alma mater, nonetheless!
Dr. NT Wright speaking on Job 42, at Wheaton College
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLOzo7pct9Y
Things he touches on that were particularly meaningful to me today: He asks what I've come to call in recent days "the origin questions." I have been desperate to find someone else asking these questions. A lot of people talk about how we endure the suffering even if we can't answer why...but not as many people seem brave enough to say out loud, "Why are we even suffering in the first place, regardless of whether it produces any good? We didn't ask to be here." I don't want answers to this. I just want to mingle with other people courageous enough to ask.
Also, I always appreciate how Dr. Wright points out the philosophies that have been generally and falsely accepted as Christianity. I have over the years continually identified so much Gnosticism entrenched in my personal beliefs. It's like weeding a garden. You can spend a Saturday weeding the flower bed, only to find by the next Saturday, more weeds have taken root and popped up all over again. It's a perpetual work. Just like the work of righting our perspective of God. A lot of the work in my soul over the last couple very dark months is confronting my delusion about life being a fairy tale.
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