'Life Between The Questions"

 I want to share with you some quotes from a book that captured my mind; my first year of ministry.  It is the one book that I would never lend to someone for fear I would never see it again.  

It is that precious.

Unfortunately this amazing book it no longer in print.

Please join me in ‘Life Between The Questions,’ by Carolyn Huffman.  Her book is completely written in hand written words and simple illustrations.

“Often I ponder, 

sometimes I pray,

Over making life choices

As I use up my day.”

“Will Big Brother computers

Control our lifestyles?

Will my days be increased

By jogging those miles?”

“Is the atmosphere changing?

Will sea levels hold?

Will science cure cancer

Or diseases of old?”

“How do bees make sweet honey

In an intricate comb?

How do birds navigate 

And find their way home?”

“And why do some children 

Grow gently with grace

while others bring chaos

To reign in a place?”

“Must all faces wrinkle

And all hair turn gray?

Must we always have winter?

Can’t springtime just stay?”

“Will life ever be fair?

Cries man to the sages.

“Unequivocally no,”

Resounds through the ages.”

“What about suffering

By the good and the bad?

Will I ever find answers

When I cry and am sad.”

“Or is that the right time 

Not to ponder, but pray,

And to ask for the courage

To live one more day?’

“For questions don’t matter,

and facts grow quite stale,

when life’s storms surround you

Or wind drops from your sail.”

“Who really does care if 

Brash science is right

When you’re lost in the tunnel

of darkness, no light?”

“Was mankind created

By an unchanging plan?

Or did chance forge the link

Between amoeba and man?”

“For prayer has the power

To erase question marks,

and to bring faith alive

In the spiritual darks.”

“Do miracles happen?

Did a babe become king?

In a Bethlehem stable?

Did angle hosts sing?”

“So ponder, you poets,

theologians, and all,

the mystery of seasons —

The spring and the fall.”

“Of stars in their heavens,

what lies under the sea?  

Of genetic and bloodstreams—

What makes you and me?”

“And test-tubing babies —

Is it ethically right?

Are there really ghost things

That go bump in the night?”

“Do demons and devils

abound in this place?

Do guardian angels

Enter our space?”

“How do frogs spring from tadpoles

And oysters make pearls?

How do boys become men,

while women were girls?”

You may question in daytime

and all through the night

How ears really hear

And eyes call forth sight;

How some worms can crawl,

then learn to wear wings;

How spiders can spin

such gossamer things;

How the brain is divided…

Into left and the right…

Of Einstein’s relativity,

and Ben Franklin’s kite.”

“How do bulbs bring forth tulips,

ansd acorns, oak trees?

How can  man most of wisdom,,

Yet read war’s disease?”

What think you of Easter?

Did they lie and deceive

when they said “Resurrection!”

To all who believe?”

“Oh, I pray for you, friend,

As you question life so,

That one day you’ll say —

“Hey, I really don’t know!”

“It’s your world, dear Lord,

In all of its glory!

I want to be yours;

Help me walk in your story.”

        Carolyn Huffman