Friday, May 04, 2012

Daily 5 - Year 3, Day 256

Today's Daily 5:

  1. a day in the mountains
  2. hanging out all day with a friend from school and her puppies, in one of my favorite parts of the world
  3. happy baby news from a friend
  4. dinner with a different friend
  5. celebrating at the wedding shower for still another friend
It was a good day... full of people and laughter and fresh air and exercise and good food and joy.

Friday Reflections, May 4, 2012

Today's reflection is once again from Henri Nouwen, and reminds me of how valuable it is to ask questions, and not spend all of our time in answers, but to really honor the questions.


Question from Above

What are spiritual questions?  They are questions from above.  Most questions people ask of Jesus are questions from below, such as the question about which of  a woman's seven husbands she will be married to in the resurrection.   Jesus does not answer this question because it comes from a legalistic mind-set.  It is a question from below.

Often Jesus  responds by changing this question.  In the case of the woman with seven husbands he says, "At the resurrection men and women do not marry - have you never read what God himself said to you:  'I am God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob?'  He is God not of the dead but of the living" (Matthew 22:23-30).

We have to keep looking for the spiritual question if we want spiritual answers.