I wonder if believing that your life is a story is what makes it into one.
I wonder if wondering is the same as faith.
I wonder if our wondering feels like an invitation to God.
[When you use the word wonder that many times, it starts to sound a little weird. I wonder why that is?]
I wonder what it's like to be in Africa. :)
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I had to think of something to "Wonder" about and that is what I am "Wondering" about now. :)
I wonder why Jesus did not tell us about germ theory. I wonder if maybe he did but the disciples thought it was dumb or didn't get it so they didn't write it down. I wonder if Jesus didn't know about germ theory because God didn't think it was important for Him to talk about it. Perhaps it wasn't germane to the story.
ReplyDeleteI wonder why I always wonder so darned much and why no matter how hard I try now to wonder, I just wind up wondering more. I wonder if that'll ever stop or if I'll always be like that and I wonder what God's reasons for making me that way are and futher I wonder when I am going to know.
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ReplyDeleteIf you stopped wondering, soon you'd stop believing. Suffocation follows closely behind.
Wondering is the stew in the cauldron of our souls, up from which our dreams rise in swirling vapors.
Knowledge is only the rocks we sit on while we're stoking the fire and stirring the pot.
--Jon
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ReplyDeleteJesus liked mystery way too much to just go and explain germ theory outright. Where would the fun be in that? Louis Pasteur wouldn't have had anything to do a few hundred years later.
--Jon
man I wish I could go a day without someone mentioning something like "germ theory". Now how is a guy supposed to get work done? I could wonder myself out of a job.
ReplyDeleteI need to look at simpler blogs, the smart people have no mercy on people who wonder.
Knowledge is only the rocks we sit on while we're stoking the fire and stirring the pot.
ReplyDeleteI wonder what's in the pot. :)
Thanks, I appreciate what you said. Sometimes my wondering just sends me wandering and I really can annoy myself with it at times. Why do you think some people wonder more than others?
"When I was young, I said to God, God, tell me the mystery of the universe. But God answered, That knowledge is for me alone. So I said, God, tell me the mystery of the peanut. Then God said, Well, George, that's more nearly your size."
ReplyDelete--George Washington Carver
George was also a wonderer.
Wonder kept dazzling me and I recall only wonder...the larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
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That's a sweet quote.
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That is a sweet quote. I think the difficulty for me in having a wondering spirit is that most of my life I got "Why do you have to ask so many questions?" "What are you thinking that for?" Often my wondering feels like wandering and I try to remind myself that I'm the one that walked off the map.
ReplyDeleteIt's no surprise that something so close to your identity would be targeted by the powers of darkness and doubt.
ReplyDeleteBut when God invites, you must follow. The map would be pretty small if no one wondered what was just to the left of block A5.
Thanks for the encouragement. I needed it today. It seems like the powers of darkness have been trying to completely take me down my entire life. I guess there's a positive implied in that.
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