“Oh God, I long for understanding, but life is full of unanswered questions. God, reveal to me what I need to know and for all the rest… show me how to live with so much uncertainty.
blessed are we who come to You in the discomfort of our doubt, for we trust that our honest unknowing is a truer and better prayer than bootstrapping efforts at certainty.
blessed are we, receiving the gift of doubt,
for we trust that it is a doorway, freeing us to become
that we could not otherwise have known.
blessed are we, remembering that You God, hold all things together.
You are the invisible scaffolding that supports us,
the canopy of love that protects us in the present,
the stable pillars, sunk deep into our past,
and the Dove that flies confidently toward the future
bearing for us the peace we could never have attained for ourselves.
blessed are we, settling into the truth that there are things that we can’t know, settling into the humility that knows this one thing that we are of the earth, and You are our God.”
by: Kate Bowler
May You hear God’s certainty in amongst feelings of unrest, anxiety, self-loathing, chaos, and trust, that even though you don’t have the full picture, God is in the midst and at work.
Peace,
Sarah Knapton,
(she/her/hers)