Good morning…
A dear friend reconnected me to an old quote I adore from When the Heart Waits by Sue Monk Kidd:
“What has happened to our ability to dwell in unknowing, to live inside a question and coexist with the tensions of uncertainty? Where is our willingness to incubate pain and let it birth something new? What has happened to patient unfolding, to endurance? These things are what form the ground of waiting. And if you look carefully, you’ll see that they’re also the seedbed of creativity and growth—what allows us to do the daring and to break through to newness. . . . Creativity flourishes not in certainty but in questions. Growth germinates not in tent dwelling but in upheaval. Yet the seduction is always security rather than venturing, instant knowing rather than deliberate waiting” (25).
As I wrestled again with these old words, a text came in from another dear friend. “Do you know Christian artist Audrey Assad?” she asked. “She has a wonderful way of infusing the new.”
Pondering the old and infusing the new, I searched for “Audrey Assad” on YouTube. I savored the delicious song below.
Jesus asked, “Are you starting to get a handle on all this?”
They answered, “Yes.”
He said, “Then you see how every student well-trained in God’s kingdom is like the owner of a general store who can put his hands on anything you need, old or new, exactly when you need it” (Matthew 13:51-52, MSG).
…Sue…
