Dear Spiritual Companions,

Did you ever have someone say the right thing to you or read something at just the right time?  If so how did they know that you needed to hear or read something at that moment?  Mystery.  To me it is one of the finest mysteries in life.  It is as though there is a Force working in sync with our needs.  Can we live without an explanation?  I believe we can, but as we become comfortable with Mystery.

Life has no answers, just endless questions.  Comfortable with that idea?  If not then maybe mystery is not on your journey.  If so mystery might be your teacher.  Is one better than the other?  All depends on how you look at it.  Why do we have to be caught up in better?  Who said life had to have a better in it?  Could it be not needing to find “the better” is a freeing component in a peaceful life?

The world sells us answers.  Wipe out this enemy and you have peace.  Eliminate this religion and you have truth.  See in the way I describe it and you will have an anxious free life.  Sound familiar?  But is it true?  Could it actually be that our enemy is our teacher?  How about another religion having another truth helpful to us?  Maybe a lack of anxiety in life actually leads to danger?  Lots of questions without answers.  How are we feeling?  Uncomfortable?  Life is not always what it appears to be.  It may truly be a mystery!

Something happens inside of me when I don’t have to be an answer person.  I feel like a weight has been lifted from me.  Instead of life being a burden, I am walking into a new light.  Let’s play with the word light.  It can mean not heavy or it can mean the opposite of dark, or both.  If we feel weighed down by something happening what if we look at why that is the case?  If we feel like we are in the dark, what happens if a question actually adds light?  Maybe it is better to live with the questions.  Maybe we are burdened by having to find answers.  Maybe not!

Could awareness be found in asking a question that opens this moment to us?  So often the past guides the present moment.  I have always done it this way.  Why?  Or the future brings fear because it may not work out.  Why? Maybe we are concerned about the wrong thing?  It is mystery isn’t it.  Just like these words touching you in the exact right way.  Isn’t God or whatever Name You call It Mysterious?  Don’t answer the question live in it.

Peace,

Gary