In reading Clyde Crews book, Ultimate Questions, I like his statement No one escapes questioning; and in good measure we are defined in life and even in death by the nature of our own personal response (p. 3). I would go one step further and maintain that we cannot truly answer the question once and for all, that my personal response will change even as my life changes. That truly, no answer will satisfy me forever.
You know from your own experience even as I know from mine: answers never truly satisfy. What seemed right in one situation will not be so in another. Because answers are an attempt to make sense of it all, and sometime, life just doesn't make sense.
But perhaps it is even more than that. Perhaps our dissatisfaction with former answers come because we have grown beyond that point. We know that the answer only half answered, and we need to find more. I think this is good, for it means we are seeking, and that is always a good thing
It also comes because, as we journey forward, we begin to look more to understand the questions than to need answers. In fact, the best answers come when we are seeking to unravel the question, to understand it fully, to see it from every side. Then our multifaceted question will challenge us immensely.
There is no getting around it. We all question. The important point is, do we live our questions? Do we sit with them and let them unfold before us?
Or do we grab for answers and run?
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