An Inquiring Mind
Inquiring minds want to know...
Do you realize how often this phrase is employed by individuals and interest groups to stimulate your interest in their interest? A quick Google search reminds us that seemingly everyone - from scientists to tabloid journalists - wants to pique our interest by appealing to our identification with the intellectual "elite." No one wants to appear incurious; at least I don't know anyone who does (now that I no longer teach sophomores).
For me, asking questions is not just intellectually stimulating and satisfying but one of the joys of life. Every answer I receive may not be the answer, but it will still provide beneficial, or even entertaining, food for thought.
Out of all the resources we enjoy in life, many of which we may soon have to learn to ration, our amazing, inquiring mind serves as a wellspring of ingenuity, and unlike the finite physical resources, it doesn't diminish with use. It expands.
Do you realize how often this phrase is employed by individuals and interest groups to stimulate your interest in their interest? A quick Google search reminds us that seemingly everyone - from scientists to tabloid journalists - wants to pique our interest by appealing to our identification with the intellectual "elite." No one wants to appear incurious; at least I don't know anyone who does (now that I no longer teach sophomores).
For me, asking questions is not just intellectually stimulating and satisfying but one of the joys of life. Every answer I receive may not be the answer, but it will still provide beneficial, or even entertaining, food for thought.
Out of all the resources we enjoy in life, many of which we may soon have to learn to ration, our amazing, inquiring mind serves as a wellspring of ingenuity, and unlike the finite physical resources, it doesn't diminish with use. It expands.
Of course, that is because we were created in the image of God, whose mind initiated and sustains everything we see and know. His wisdom and knowledge are infinite, and He invites us to draw from His resources. Jesus said, "Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls," and that includes satisfying answers to the greatest, most unsettling questions of life (and insights into the small ones, too.)
I will continue to look at life, at culture -in all of its glory and all of its insanity- and ask "Why?" And I'll accept His invitation to learn from Him.
"One thing I have desired of the Lord,
That will I seek:
That I may dwell in the house of the Lord
All the days of my life,
To behold the beauty of the Lord,
And to inquire in His temple." Psalm 27:4
