Friday, May 31, 2013

     Do you enjoy ambiguity?  Most people do not.  Most of us like to understand things, to have a clear direction, to know that our world makes sense to us.
     Unfortunately, the world is far from black and white.  A creation of an infinite being as well as the experiential medium for finite beings, the world will never be completely clear to us.  Those who attempt to make it so, be it for religious, political, or other reasons, will invariably and inevitably stumble over the one thing they cannot change:  the unpredictability and "gray" of existence.  We will never fully lock up the world in the way that we think it should be.  We live with uncertainty and ambiguity every day; indeed, life cannot be any other way.
     So whether you pray for guidance and wisdom from God, or employ the forces of your native reason to find your way to wisdom and truth, remember that truth is just that, truth, something that, were it always and entirely clear, we would not even be asking about it.
     In its origins as well as in its effects, truth remains something beyond us.  We seek it, we live in it, we love it, but we will never own it entirely, for truth is something that, by its very nature, must come from beyond us.
     Pray, think, reason, and live, but above all, enjoy your ambiguity.  And rejoice that it is our ambiguity that tells us that the universe is anything but.

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