Risk and Wonder

A. Unabashed Pacifist:

Who let loose the humans of war? Not the dogs, not the powerless…

B. Unabashed Christian:

Holy One,

Forgive the intrusion, but don’t I know you from somewhere?
Forgive my forgetfulness, but didn’t you help me that time I was in trouble? Did I thank you?
Forgive my hearing problem, but did you say you love me?
Forgive me if this sounds insensitive, but how well do I know you?
Forgive my audacity, but do I know you well enough to speak on your behalf?
Amen

C. Un-quoting Jesus:

“You know, Thomas, I love that Mrs. Robinson – more than she will ever know.”

[Simon & Garfunkel got it from somewhere, but He never said it like that.]

D. Blog: Risk and Wonder

To go boldly where none have gone before. That is the invitation we all receive in life. I don’t know that I have gone boldly, for I usually understood some of the risks. But I have gone; I have accepted the invitation to do something different, to leave the comfort zone, to take the unfamiliar route, to chart my own course.

I like to think it’s a matter of trusting Got, of trusting the life force, following the spirit of the divine. Perhaps, though, it’s simply a matter of curiosity, as in “I wonder what will happen if I do this? I wonder what I will see if I go there?”

Yes, that’s a big part of it. I wonder, so I risk.