I think I’ve written about this before – I’ll go back at some point and look for the original post and see how close I still am (or how much this has shifted since then). But this musing crossed my mind this past weekend and is still sitting with me today.

I think I am gradually moving from a place of living out of answers to living out of questions. These days, I feel like I have less grasp than ever on the “right answers” in most spheres. Whether for me personally or for the world at large, the more I learn and navigate, steadily larger becomes the number of things cast in shadow and uncertainty.

There are a few rock-solid truths I still hold to (I believe those have been the subject of a different post). But I think that I’m beginning to value the idea of choosing the questions I want to live by rather than just the truths. Those include:

1. What is God doing?
2. How can I bring my life more in line with what He would find beautiful and be pleased by?
3. How can I live more into the things of God (and the things He cares about) today than I did yesterday?
4. What things is He inviting me into today?
5. How do I surrender to Him more?
6. What am I built for and written to do?
7. How can I live in this moment well?
8. What things are keeping me from dwelling in the questions above and how can I mitigate them?

A work in progress. How does this sit with you? Do you have your own “code of questions”? Would love to hear.

-LS