Four-year-olds are noted for asking questions. "Why is the sky blue? How does a faucet work? Why are you doing that?" It is an integral part of growing up. Might not questioning be just as essential to our spiritual growth?
Questions can bring inspiration to familiar patterns of thinking. They can focus thought and help us probe deeper. They can point up broader applications of what we already know. And seeking the answers can be exciting and rewarding.
Some questions, of course, serve only as checks on ourselves; others can send us to dictionaries and concordances or to other study aids. Still others may require searching for deep spiritual truths; they can teach us to listen with spiritual sense for God's answers. In this quest we begin to know ourselves as in truth the children of divine Mind, God, inseparable from Him. We also become more willing to relinquish the belief that we have finite minds— separate from the one divine Mind—which, we hope, God will somehow enlighten. Instead we learn that in reality the divine Mind is the only Mind and that we are its totally spiritual expression. As we identify with this Mind, the answers we are looking for gently unfold.
