Embracing God’s Mystery

*Picture taken in Auburn, CA

A Practice in Listening to the Inner Voice of Love 

Then Gideon said to God, “In order to see whether you will deliver Israel by my hand, as you have said, I am going to lay a fleece of wool on the threshing floor; if there is dew on the fleece alone, and it is dry on all the ground, then I shall know that you will deliver Israel by my hand, as you have said.”

—Judges 6:36-40 

Beloved,

Carry your questions with patience and wonder. Be at rest in the ambiguity of not knowing. If you don’t have an answer, you may not have all the information yet. There may be more I am still at work doing—making preparations, and arranging what you can’t yet see.

Or the question may still be forming in you, helping you receive and understand it in a different way. I may be inviting you to grow by stepping out in faith, and what a gift that is! I am giving you an opportunity for transformation, a way to experience the miraculous revelation of my love. Don’t miss this gift by forcing an answer right now that doesn’t quite fit.

As my beloved poet Rilke said, “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.”

Beloved, when you live in union with me you can live everything to its fullness—even the waiting and not knowing. Your task is to embrace my mystery, knowing every aspect of your human experience is a way to know me more intimately. 

—Love