- Finished my stats class, and the final went fairly well
- Also did my last telephone anatomy quiz. not sure how well it went, but I felt decent about it.
- taking the evening off from studying
- a mid-day nap
- candles
- peanut m&m's
- feeling buoyed by prayers of friends
- thankful for family
- glad for the brief moments of peace
- a scarf from czech arrived in the mail (a late birthday gift from a dear friend overseas)
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Daily 5 - Year 2, Day 10
Today's Daily 5:
Paradox
On Sunday morning, the daily devotional from Richard Rohr was simply titled "Paradox" and read as follows:
I don’t think the important thing is to be certain about answers nearly as much as being serious about the questions.
When we hold the questions, we meet and reckon with our contradictions, with our own dilemmas, and we invariably arrive at a turning point where we either evade God or meet God.
When we hang on the horns of the dilemma with Christ—between heaven and earth, between the divine and the human realms—it creates liminal space. All transformation takes place when we’re somehow in between, inside of liminal space. (Richard Rohr)
My question is this - are we willing to live in that space of questions long enough to allow transformation to come and take hold?
I don’t think the important thing is to be certain about answers nearly as much as being serious about the questions.
When we hold the questions, we meet and reckon with our contradictions, with our own dilemmas, and we invariably arrive at a turning point where we either evade God or meet God.
When we hang on the horns of the dilemma with Christ—between heaven and earth, between the divine and the human realms—it creates liminal space. All transformation takes place when we’re somehow in between, inside of liminal space. (Richard Rohr)
My question is this - are we willing to live in that space of questions long enough to allow transformation to come and take hold?
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