The Beatles insisted he let it be, let it be. Stephen ejected the tape from his eight-track and threw it on the floor of the passenger seat. Whispered words of wisdom, please. They had no idea.

To know. Not to know about.

Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find.' If you know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give to those who ask him!" My mind filled with

I glanced around, hoping Bobbie would appear to give me some guidance. "She's not here now," Eli said. "I sent her away because I want you to listen to me before we go back to town." He had that power over her? I felt exposed there, but maybe he did have some power over the Fury.

If I have a theological virtue, it is curiosity or inquisitiveness.

We don't invent morality; we discover it like we discover multiplication tables.

To be wise is to be eternally curious.

Blessed are not the enlightened whose every question has been answered and who are delighted with their own sublime insight, the mature and ripe ones whose one remaining action is to fall from the tree. Blessed, rather, are the chased, the harassed who must daily stand before my enigmas and cannot solve them.

In prayer Jesus slows us down, teaches us to count how few days we have, and gifts us with wisdom. He reveals to us that we are so caught up in what is urgent that we have overlooked what is essential. He ends our indecision and liberates us from the oppression of false deadlines and myopic vision.

Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart, Naught is all else to me, save that thou art. Thou my best thought by day and by night, Waking or sleeping, thy presence my light. Be thou my wisdom, thou my true word; I ever with thee, thou with me, Lord.

He ends our indecision and liberates us from the oppression of false deadlines and myopic vision.

Our God is a God who cares, heals, guides, directs, challenges, confronts, corrects. To discern means first of all to listen to God, to pay attention to God's active presence, and to obey God's prompting, direction, leadings, and guidance.