Why Curiosity Keeps Pulling Me Back to the Gospels
Faith is not always the absence of questions. Sometimes the questions are what lead us deeper.
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Every now and then, someone asks how I manage to write about faith every day.
It’s a fair question. From the outside, it may look as though I have a long list of answers I want to share. Perhaps it seems as though I sit down each morning with some ready-made wisdom, ready to package it neatly and send it into the world.
The truth is almost the opposite.
Most of the time, I write because I am still trying to work things out myself.
Curiosity, more than certainty, is what keeps pulling me back to the Gospels.
I have always been the sort of person who asks the obvious question in the room. This was especially true when it came to religion. As a child in Sunday school, I was the one with my hand up every few minutes, probably exhausting the patience of some very kind leaders who had only wanted a peaceful morning with fuzzy felt cutouts of Jesus.
That instinct never really left me.
In fact, it was curiosity, along with some major events in my life, that led me away from faith for a time. The questions became too large, too awkward, too unresolved. Yet strangely, it was the same questioning that eventually led me back. Not because I suddenly found all the answers, but because I began to discover better questions.
Looking back, curiosity has always shaped my relationship with faith.
