I am conscious this week that there are numbers of families in our community who are grieving, mourning the passing of loved ones. These can be impossibly hard times for us - we may long for things which cannot be changed to be different, but we have to deal with the reality that faces us. As Christians we genuinely grieve with hope, but it is still so hard to sit with mystery, ambiguity and unanswered questions.
The words below are written by the Austrian poet, Rainer Maria Rilke, who is trying to become comfortable with not knowing everything:
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
May you be aware this week of the God who holds us in his hand - so tightly that no-one can snatch us away (John 10:28).
The words below are written by the Austrian poet, Rainer Maria Rilke, who is trying to become comfortable with not knowing everything:
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
May you be aware this week of the God who holds us in his hand - so tightly that no-one can snatch us away (John 10:28).