Light bursting questions.
not all questions are good.
Thought
“That’s a great question” is something I have said (sometimes even when it‘s untrue) many times as a gospel teacher. I enjoy teaching and fortunately it has been one of life’s great privileges to have had many opportunities to teach in classes, quorums and meetings.
I have asked a lot of questions, and been asked many in return. Something that I have observed as a result of all these questions is that not all questions are of equal value, usefulness or greatness.
Some questions are, dare I say it, bad questions, not in the sense that they are evil, but bad because they just aren’t good. My children often accuse me of saying “no” a lot; often I quip back that they ought to ask me questions I can say “yes” to.
Although Christ taught us that if we asked we would receive. I suspect that this is only true when we ask the right kind of question. Too rarely do I consider what the right question is to ask, and therefore experience my fare share of frustrating silence.
We love to speak, and rightly so, of the miraculous first vision; that glorious event where the heavens burst open and God the Father and Jesus Christ appeared to Joseph Smith, yet I suspect that many of us have not adequately considered how it was an important question, a good question, a right question, that triggered the heavenly response. Joseph wasn’t just wandering through the woods, he entered the quiet grove that spring morning armed with a powerful, sincere, light bursting question.
Quote.
nonsense remains nonsense even when we talk it about God.
- C.S. Lewis (The Problem of Pain, pg. 11)
Idea.
1 real friend is worth a thousand virtual ones. Be present.