Hi Tab Family,
This week Sana challenged us to wrestle with the complexities of the Bible, and I really love the places it took me internally.
Oftentimes, certainty is what I crave, and as someone who is constantly making and refining plans, I feel like I’m in a place now where I’d like to let that go a little — if not a lot. The pandemic has certainly thwarted many of our plans for these past couple years, but in thinking of my own trajectory, I’m realizing that the uncertainty actually was the biggest motivator to finally start answering my call to ministry, in the formal sense. After spending the first few years of my adult life constantly making plans and revising them, only to lead me to closed doors, I was finally in a space where I no longer craved certainty, because it simply was no longer sustainable.
And as it turns out — uncertainty is sort of liberating, at least for me! In the context of the Bible being a complex, uncertain, unclear, living text, this uncertainty is also liberating. So why not take the pressure off? Why try to find The Answer when we can see there are actually Many Answers and sometimes no answers?
How would your life change if you let go of certainty, and clarity, and instead basked in the liberation of the mystery? Is there anything you’d do differently?
Blessings on the end of your week,
Taylor