A late night source thread for my good and old friend @RichardArbuckle. Not that he is old, but that our friendship is old.
Ambiguity generates anxiety because we need solid ground upon which to form our ideas, plans, security and well being.
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Ambiguity generates anxiety because we need solid ground upon which to form our ideas, plans, security and well being.
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But ambiguity strips us of all of that - plans, certainty, knowledge....ambiguity strips us of control.
There is an upside, as there often is....
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There is an upside, as there often is....
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Ambiguity invites us to deeper faith, deeper trust.
Confession: I find it more difficult to follow the invisible, intangible God. Easier to follow my own plans, my own veneer thin illusion of control.
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Confession: I find it more difficult to follow the invisible, intangible God. Easier to follow my own plans, my own veneer thin illusion of control.
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In the wonderful words of Rich Mullins, ambiguity 'shakes us forward and shakes us free' and invites us to the faith 'that I don't know if I am climbing to or falling in.'
Faith and doubt aren't opposites. Faith and knowledge are.
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Faith and doubt aren't opposites. Faith and knowledge are.
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There are things we know, there are things we take on faith. Ambiguity invites us to move things from column A to column B. The things we thought we know for sure, become things we question.
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We are in a long marathon of ambiguity with COVID. It taxes leaders who feel a need to know, and makes people anxious who want certainty and answers.
And, it should be noted, it generates genuine grief for things lost and 'what could have been.'
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And, it should be noted, it generates genuine grief for things lost and 'what could have been.'
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