My girlfriend Linnea (One of The Salvation Sisters) sent this though to me. It was as my girlfriend Donna would say -- just what I needed when I needed it.

Richard's Daily Meditations

Question of the Day:
Where in my life do I most need the freedom not to know?

“The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason.”

~ Thomas à Becket’s words in T.S. Eliot’s
Murder in the Cathedral

Great spiritual teachers always balance knowing with not knowing—and knowing that you don’t know, even your own motives—as we see in St. Thomas à Becket. This balancing act became the central Biblical great idea called “faith.” I am afraid it has been largely lost in the west in our desire to combat secularists, atheists, and unbelievers. The Christian churches today largely define faith as knowing, and even being certain about your knowing, when in fact it means exactly the opposite!

Faith is being willing not to know, and still being content, because God knows. Faith is a learned “tolerance for ambiguity” because I no longer use knowledge as power, so I no longer need to be right. I do not even need to know that I am perfectly moral, superior, or good, because I now know as Jesus said, that “God alone is good” (Mark 10:18).

Now that’s definitely a gift from God—to be able to live with the freedom not to know and not to be right—and that is exactly why we always said that faith is a gift. It is a gift we can consciously ask for and grow into, but we do need to know what the goal is!

Adapted from Beginner’s Mind
Mantra:
Let each moment be a new beginning.