A Really Good Question
One of my dearest friends who is a lot older than me just turned 62. I took him out to lunch for his birthday and I asked him how do you feel about being 62?
He pondered only for a short moment and said,
“I have recently been thinking a lot about death”.
“Wow, although I am significantly younger, me too! So much it’s almost distracting,” I chimed in without an invitation.
Only slightly perturbed at my interruption, he continued, “What’s the end of all of this? I believe that I have endured all of this for some reason and I want to know about that”.
Me too.
But I kept this thought to myself.
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Did you ever notice that in the holy books, God never directly addressed our most annoying questions:
Who am I?
and
Why am I here?
Although Jesus seemed to be pretty sure about himself (I have come to set the captives free, I have come so you might have life to the full, etc,) but he only hinted at how we are supposed to answer the questions by telling us what we should:
DO
Love God
Love Others
Love Ourselves
I don’t know about you, but just doing love without knowing the why is a bit squishy for me.
I personally like working without and sometimes outside of boundaries, but when it comes to the big questions, I want some firm footing.
What’s the end goal?
In our organizations and in our lives, maybe if we paid closer attention to the what and the how, the why would pale in significance? Is that what the “god with us” was hinting at?
So all I am supposed to do is love
and the questions get answered?
If I do that well and don’t get a satisfactory answer…
well, I will get back to you.
