Love the questions

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart
and try to love the questions themselves.
Do not 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 answers.

—Rainer Maria Rilke, Letter to a Young Poet

I know that sometimes I want an answer now, a solution now, and for whatever reason it can not yet come. Not until I stop working it out my way. Not until I stop asking. Not until I am still and waiting and at peace with the wait, or as Rilke puts it "Loving the question."

I am reminded of an earlier post, Trust in the slow work of God, which quoted Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. In part he wrote

We should like to skip the intermediate stages.
We are impatient of being on the way
to something unknown, something new,
and yet it is the law of all progress
that it is made by passing through
some stages of instability—
and that it may take a very long time.

The full text is online here: Trust in the slow work of God.

peace,
Frank+
The Rev. Frank Logue, Pastor + King of Peace Episcopal Church