Week 22 Ecclesiastes
One of the reasons I read the bible is to help myself find answers to questions. The bible is complicated and since I prefer simplicity I’m hoping for a gradual process of decomplicating the things I read.
In my experience the bible does explain & unravel some things. But other things stay pretty obscure – or are maybe only partially clarified. So I end up being partly in the light and partly in the fog.
I think there’s a good chance that over time some things that are already fairly understandable will get even more clear for me and that genuinely obscure questions might get a bit less fuzzy. But my suspicion is that even if I had 10,000 years to mull over the bible’s content I’d still end up with some cryptic hangers-on – vague & hidden & still unresolved. I’m pretty sure that my 10,000-year bible reading plan wouldn’t resolve everything.
I figure two things:
First is that I’ve got to make my peace with the inevitable mental-psychic vacuums. Try not to throw up my hands. Accept reality.
Second thing though is to working-away at trying to see whether the void has anything at all to divulge. It could be that it doesn’t. But who knows? And even if I can’t get to the bottom of a complicated thing it’s (likely) helpful to recognize that some things don’t have a bottom I can get to.