Do Questions Have Answers?

Have you ever given any thought to how often the questions we ask; may never find an answer?

One question I have been faced with over and over is: “why?”  I have to believe it is the most common question out there — in ordinary everyday life.

Memory:

That particular question brings back a precious memory and smile to my face.

I was at my future sister-in-laws wedding shower.

I took my seat on a step that led into the living room.  A little three year old girl came and sat beside me and began asking me questions.

I can’t remember what she asked — that was fifty-five years ago — but with each answer I gave, she would ask “why?.”  This went on for multiple minutes.

Little children are just naturally curious and often don’t take our simple response as a pat answer.  More times, than not. they are looking past what we tell them to other possibilities.

Sadly, as they grow, their tendency to ask — their natural curiosity — gets squelched.  It gets sucked out of their free thinking little minds.

And they lose the freedom to ask.  Left to wonder in their private little minds.

I, myself, know of this conditioned private world of wondering alone.

Interesting!  

I had put this blog to the side for a bit; and was reading the news pop-up, for the day, on my I-pad.  This is what I read: “Ethiopian troops are blocking critical aid to their starving population.”

Immediately my mind asked:  “What is happening to our world?”

Care to venture and answer ?

Tomorrow I will share with you some of the questions in a book titled:  "Life Between the Questions by: Carolyn Huffman, published in 1985.