“Universal mystery,
Guide us away from the desire to
Shine light in all the corners.
Teach us to embrace the night,
For without the darkness,
We never see the stars.”
-Jennifer Gracen
Look at the stars tonight and ponder your connection to the universal mystery.
The closed door is a mystery. Until it is opened we do not know what exists on the other side.
What doorways–real or metaphorical–can you open today?
Solving a mystery is fulfilling. I’m not talking about big mysteries, but little everyday mysteries. Where did I put that? How can I do that? It feels good to work hard, sometimes alone and sometimes with others, to figure it out.
Solve a little mystery today. Take satisfaction from your accomplishment.
It is sometimes the hard mystery of attempting to understand “why?” Why did that happen, or why did they pass that law? Mystery is the why we don’t always get to know.
What is something you would like to know the “why” of? How do you embrace the mystery of not knowing that?
Throughout my life I have encountered variations of the question “Do you believe in ____?” Whether it be ghosts, Santa, fairies, whatever. My answer has almost always been something like “I believe that there are things that we cannot understand.” I have always felt strongly that forces exist that we cannot necessarily perceive, and they are a mystery to us. We all find different ways of explaining the unexplained through spirituality, science, storytelling, or imagination, and they are all useful in living harmoniously with mysterious things.
What is something you believe in that cannot be understood rationally?
