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What do I have a GIVENNESS NOW to?

The darkness of not knowing.

“This lonely prayer, which Abraham Heschel once described as a share in the pathos of God, is the only way to true discernment.

To reach this wisdom which is more than talk and ideas, one must do more than talk and think.

The way to this knowledge is through the darkness of not knowing, and a living, shared experience of the poverty and helplessness of Christ as he is in the world.”  Francis Martin, Touching God

….as He is in the world.

I have a GIVENNESS NOW to the darkness of not knowing.

What do I have a GIVENNESS NOW to?

Not knowing the only restaurant with the best steak in town.

“Now your patient is his mother’s son.

While working your hardest, quite rightly, on other fronts, you must not neglect a little quiet infiltration in respect of gluttony.


Being a male, he is not so likely to be caught by the ‘All I want’ camouflage.

Males are best turned into gluttony with the help of their vanity.


They ought to be made to think themselves very knowing about food, to pique themselves on having found the only restaurant in the town where steaks are really ‘properly cooked.

What begins as vanity can then be gradually turned into habit.”  C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

…the calamity of vanity.

I have a GIVENNESS NOW to not knowing the only restaurant with the best steak in town.

What do I have a GIVENNESS NOW to?

Knowing that I’m not Mr. Know-It-All.

“I want to know Christ…”  Philippians 3:10

…knowing that I want to know.

…knowing that I want to want to know.


…knowing I’m not Bullwinkle.

I have a GIVENNESS NOW to knowing that I’m not Mr. Know-It-All.