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Fuzzy Finish Line
I went through a time in my life when I wanted to study the Bible until I knew it. I mean all of it. No stone unturned. I would have no unanswered questions. The pursuit toward that goal was more than frustrating. The Bible is too deep, too mysterious, and too complex to truly ever reach the bottom. I couldn’t know God the way I thought I could. I figured out that at the moment I thought I knew God (if I were ever to get to that point) that I would be more mistaken than ever.Apparently, the spiritual journey is a lot like parenting. You never arrive.
The more I hear from parents and the more I read in books I realize this is just another never-ending journey. You don’t learn everything then stop. You get to know that particular child and how to raise him or her. At each stage of life you are learning how to deal with the issues involved. With the next child I believe (or at least, hope) you know more but, alas, this is yet another child, another personality, another individual. And you’re off learning again.
So I’ve hung up my goal of learning everything I need to know before he arrives and I’m settled in for the ride. Jonathan, Asher, and I will be in this thing together finding out more about each other all the time. I kind of like it this way.