Mystery
Questions
As you’ve grown older, has life seemed to have more or less mystery in it?
What was the first mystery to capture your imagination? How does that still shape you today?
What has been your most successful means of encountering or staying open to mystery?
What’s the most unprovable thing you’ve placed your faith in?
Have you ever heard silence speak?
Has mysterious “meaningful coincidence” (synchronicity) ever pointed you in the direction you needed to go, right when you were not sure of your way?
Mystics describe their mysterious experiences using phrases like, “my soul turned into a tree,” “I slipped and fell into the sky” and “I became a transparent eyeball.” Do any of these descriptions resonate with you? Have you had a mysterious or mystical experience that would help explain these phrases to others?
Do you spend more time treating life like a problem to be solved, a game to be won, a struggle to be survived or a mystery to be lived?
What’s one thing you could do this month to more deeply encounter mystery?
If there was one mystery you could have answered/solved before you die, what would it be?
Rev. Angela Herrera says that when we “stand at the edge of mystery, at the edge of the deep,” the armful of ordinary worries we carry, “flutters to our feet.” Has mystery ever done this for you?
What has allowed you and your life partner to still view each other as the wonderful and intoxicating mysteries you were when you first met?