‘Live the questions now.’*

‘The heart of wisdom is motivated by the need of others.’**

We may think wisdom is found in answers, but it is more strongly encountered in questions.

When wisdom is not so much about what we know but how we live, then this may be one of the most powerful, catalytic question we can ask:

“What do you want/need?”

It holds the notion that somehow I can serve you – expressing the wisdom of humility.

It hopes that I have something to give to you – expressing the wisdom of awareness or gratitude for what I have.

It believes I will somehow find ways to deliver what I have – expressing the wisdom of faithfulness in discipline and creativity.

We can live for a lifetime in questions like this.

(*Rainer Maria Rilke, quoted in the Northumbria Community’s Morning Prayer, 11/4/16.)
(**From Erwin McManus’s Uprising.)