Here’s the thing about uncertainty: It isn’t over when it’s over. Sometimes, even after we’ve made a concrete choice – or someone else has – we are still left wondering. With all the twists and turns of life, it does make one wonder if there is ever a time when we are certain about anything. How do we make good choices? After we’ve made choices, how are we to know if we’ve chosen wisely? Can we ever be sure that God is happy with our choices, or even that God has been with us in the choosing?
Sometimes when we listen to our deepest yearnings, we know what to do. Sometimes the options are out of our control. The Good News is that nothing we do or fail to do, nothing we choose or experience without choosing it will separate us from God’s love. “For I am convinced that neither death, nor life nor angels nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all of creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 8:38-39).
This message is excerpted from “Faith in times of uncertainty” by Susan Schneider in the July 2013 Café online magazine. Today is the 23rd Sunday after Pentecost.
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