Wonder

"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of all true art and true science." -Einstein

Mystery, and the sense of wonder when confronted with it, has always been the thing that arrested and held my gaze. Like Moses, compelled to turn aside at the sight of the burning bush. It was only when he had paused to contemplate it that he heard god speaking to him.  Mystery has become the heart of my theology, the living, breathing, elastic thing at it's center. The one thing, the only thing, that is capable of filling and spanning the gap between mind and heart, reason and faith. A creed whose holiest words, "I don't understand...", are uttered in hushed, awed, humbled tones.

I am persuaded that it is not so much the correct answer, but the trusting question that god calls faith.

"Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? Therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not."  -The Book of Job, 42:3

"A comprehended god is no god." -Madeleine L'Engle