Don't Know Anything

Time surely goes by fast as most of you will attest to. It has been over a month since I last wrote something in this blog. There are all sorts of reasons and excuses for that however I don't need to know them because who really cares if there is something written in this blog besides my self perhaps. Sometimes I think it is time to quit it but here I am again. So I'll keep at it for what reason I do not know because as the title of this post says, I "don't know anything".

That comes from a quote from Father Richard Rohr, a spiritual teacher and author out of the Roman Catholic tradition;
"One of Jesus' favorite visual aids is a child. Every time the disciples get into head games, he puts a child in front of them. He says the only people who can recognize and be ready for what he's talking about are the ones who come with the mind and heart of a child. It's the same reality as the beginner's mind. The older we get, the more we've been betrayed and hurt and disappointed, the more barriers we put up to beginner's mind. It's so hard to go back, to be vulnerable, to say to your soul, "I don't know anything."

If you feel down because of the above quote take heart for Thomas Kelly teaches that we need to remember who is at the center of our living.
:Deep within us all there is an amazing inner sanctuary of the soul, a holy place, a Divine Center, a speaking Voice, to which we may continually return. Eternity is at our hearts, pressing upon our time-torn lives, warming us with intimations of an astounding destiny, calling us home unto Itself... It is a Light Within that illumines the face of God and casts new shadows and new glories upon the human face. It is a seed stirring to life if we do not choke it... Here is the Slumbering Christ, stirring to be awakened, to become the soul we clothe in earthly form and action. And he is within us all."

Marilynn Robinson in her book Lila has the main character say, "So it couldn't matter much how life seemed. The old man (both preacher and her husband) always said we should attend to the things we have some hope of understanding and eternity isn't one of them. Well, this world isn't one either. Most of the time she thought she understood things better when she didn't try. Things happen the way they do. Why was a foolish question. In a song a note follows the one before because it is that song and not another one. Once she and Mellie (her friend) tried to count up all the songs they knew. How could there be so many? Because every one was just itself. It was eternity that let her think this way. In eternity people's lives could be altogether what they were and had been, not just the worst things they ever did, or the best things either. So she decided she should believe in it, or that she believed in it already."

So we do what God says and we say what God does and with that I find contentment.