Do you ever feel like the answer to one question clarifies a situation just enough to leave you with 100 new questions? Most of my faith journey has been spent this way, from trying to understand the concept of unconditional love to figuring out humility. If you look at love, for example, the Bible tells you directly what it is in 1 Corinthians. However, as nice as that definition is, it requires you to know what patience, kindness, humility and other such terms mean. Not so nice.
Lately I've been discovering that my relationships in life are exactly the same way. A friend and I sat down and were talking after months of being rather horrible to each other. The major reason I'd wanted to talk with him was to figure out if we were or could get along and actually fulfill our title as friends. As I drove home, I realized that from the simple question had stemmed so many more, and yet I'd lost the opportunity to ask them. He's not particularly going anywhere, but the moment of freedom and honesty was gone. The more I process our conversation, the more questions arise confusing me more.
I wonder if the same thing is true about our relationship with the Savior. In the moments of honesty and truth, do we get so wrapped up in having an answer that we forget to think of the hundreds of new questions that will follow? I pray that my relationship with Him would be so intimate that we never leave a state of truth sharing.
Maybe then my human relationships will follow suit.
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