11. Turn, Turn, Turn

Uncertainty is often seen as challenging, and certainly it is not an easy place to reside. But when there is a disruption in our usual routines, the assumptions upon which all our thinking and activities are based, is laid bare. Those assumptions are the hidden under pinnings of our worldview and guide us in the choosing of partners, the way we vote, spend our money, raise our families, and die.  All the activities of our lives are based on what we assume to be true and what we hold valuable. 

In times of uncertainty, when we don’t know all the answers – and we can’t know them anyway – it gives us a chance, as German writer and critical thinker Rainer Maria Rilke would instruct, to ‘live into the questions.’ And I suppose that is what we are trying to do when we gather together in Sabbath time, to explore the world of thought and spirituality as we live the questions.  Hoping that you find here, in our podcast, or extra resources, that which helps you explore your deepest questions.

“O gather up the brokenness
And bring it to me now
The fragrance of those promises
You never dared to vow
The splinters that you carry
The cross you left behind
Come healing of the body
Come healing of the mind

And let the heavens hear it
The penitential hymn
Come healing of the spirit
Come healing of the limb
Behold the gates of mercy
In arbitrary space
And none of us deserving
The cruelty or the grace

O solitude of longing
Where love has been confined
Come healing of the body
Come healing of the mind”

— Leonard Cohen, Come Healing