Witness Wednesday with Rilke and questions

Welcome, everyone! Here's the quote and prompt for those of you that just arrived:

“I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

From Emma Hulbert (she/her) ehulbert@fcnl.org to Everyone 02:23 PM

What would it look like for us to "live our way into the answer?"

(Oh Dear. Might we summon too much of the truth? Where is RantWoman faltering?)

A Friend spoke of his husband working in a group on performances of African American music of the 19th century, of the diversity of musical traditions, and of his sense over time of the performance coming together as his partner practiced.

RantWoman is faltering all over the place but right now Witness Wednesday is an anchor in weekly schedule, a way to hold all that is Washington DC in the Light, and, as other Friends in different parts of the country and on different faith walks variously put it, beacons of support for each other from all our little Zoom boxes. 

The rest of this is a bit of a digression, but in the Planet RantWoman world of blog as Quaker journal, there are bits of story about cherry tomato plants, the trust of assigned and accepted writing tasks, a very striking QOTD, several paths that do not lead to "God will hunt you down in worship" explosions. RantWoman for now DUCKED explaining why the quote speaks to her except again to appreciate Witness Wednesday and the prompts offered.