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...I would like to beg you dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything

unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked

rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers,

which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the

questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

Rainer Maria Rilke, 1903

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In the beginning God… Gen 1:1 (NLT)

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1 Then the Lord answered Job from the whirlwind:

2 “Who is this that questions my wisdom with such ignorant words? 3 Brace

yourself like a man, because I have some questions for you, and you must answer

them. Job 38:1-3 (NLT)

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“By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that

what is seen was not made out of what was visible.” (Heb 11:3)

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“Great are the works of the Lord;

They are studied by all who delight in them.

Splendid and majestic is His work…

He has made His wonders to be remembered…”Psalm 111:2-4

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Perfect position

Tilted just right

Gravity just right

Just right

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“Your unfailing love, O Lord, is as vast as the heavens; your faithfulness reaches beyond the clouds. Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains, your justice like the ocean depths.”Psalms 36:5-6

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How wholly infused with Godis this one big wordwe call the world.

John Muir

I discover everywhere in the smallest thingsthat omnipotent hand which supports

the heavens and the earth,and which seems as it were in sport

while it conducts the universe.Francois Fenelon

The proper responseto the worldis applause.

William Carlos Williams

20 From the creation of the world, God's invisible qualities, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly observed in what he made. As a result, people have no excuse. 21 They knew God but did not praise and thank him for being God. Instead, their thoughts were pointless, and their misguided minds were plunged into darkness. Romans 1:20-21 (GW)

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14 So the Word became human and made his home among us. He was full of unfailing love and faithfulness. And we have seen his glory, the glory of the Father’s one and only Son.

17 For the law was given through Moses, but God’s unfailing love and faithfulness came through Jesus Christ.

18 No one has ever seen God. But the one and only Son is himself God and is near to the Father’s heart. He has revealed God to us. John 1:14-18 (NLT)

“May you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is. May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God.”Ephesians 3:18-19

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do you wonder?

23 Then Jesus got into the boat and started across the lake with his disciples.24 Suddenly,

a fierce storm struck the lake, with waves breaking into the boat. But Jesus was

sleeping.25 The disciples went and woke him up, shouting, “Lord, save us! We’re going to drown!”26 Jesus responded, “Why are you afraid? You have so little faith!” Then he got

up and rebuked the wind and waves, and suddenly all was calm.27 The disciples were

amazed. “Who is this man?” they asked. “Even the winds and waves obey him!”

Matt 8:23-27 (NLT)

did the disciples?

And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the

answer.