Do you "live the question" or fret the question?

For many people these days, the reasons for worrying seem legion. We seem to get barraged throughout the day with negativity, concern, limitation, and terror. Is it any surprise that these same feelings create the parameters of our thinking about more immediate things in our homes, workplaces, and businesses?

Since the dawn of time, there have been reasons for people to be concerned, and even to fear for their safety. Such concerns are not new. Though the details of the concerns may evolve with each generation, what rests at the heart of the concerns remains the same as was the case for our ancestors of millennia past.

And yet we do have a choice. We can choose to live the questions (which involves faith, willingness, and a sense of adventure), or we can choose to fret about the outcome (which usually includes some degree of nay-saying and myriad doomsday scenarios). The external circumstances don't change, but our mindset, and perhaps how we experience and interact with our life and all in it, changes considerably.

We have this choice — living the question, or fretting the outcome — when we think about how to create a nourishing home; how we'll pay our bills; what opportunities exist for us to do decent, ethical work; how we might follow our heart towards the fulfillment of a deeply held dream; how we can surrender in trust to the love that is possible in relationship; how we can know our truest selves, and be that in the world; what happens behind the mysteries of life and death; and many other scenarios.

Living the question, or fretting the outcome. One opens and expands, the other closes down and contracts. Living the question explores, fretting the outcome limits. Living the question can include being curious about potential outcomes, but fretting the outcome does not allow us to live the question. You can sense the difference between the two, yes?

Reflection Questions:
** Where do you fret the outcome, where you could choose instead to live the question?
** Do you have questions right now that you might choose to explore, living them with a sense of adventure?

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Sincerely,
Jamie