6th Holy Night: Encountering Thou as Questioner
Published: Mon, 12/30/13

I have had so many encounters with Thou as Questioner.
A Questioner is the Thou who asks a wisdom-seeking question that you must answer (a moral feeling, not a requirement). But to give the answer you must go beyond the limits of your existing knowledge.
In my roles as counselor, teacher, and researcher I am asked wisdom-seeking questions all the time. A wisdom-seeking question is a gateway to higher knowing, to the awesome mysteries of Imagination, Inspiration, and Intuition. To move through the gateway, you must be free and alive in your thinking.
It was about 20 years ago that I began to notice what would happen. The question would be asked. I would have an inner experience of doubt and confusion. "Why am I being asked this question by this person? I certainly don't have any knowledge that would shape a response - I am clueless!" Then without hesitation, I would speak and the wisdom was there. Surprising me and satisfying the questioner. And I would often find the answer met some need in me, or would lead me into my own set of wisdom-seeking questions, or direct me to a new deed. (And the questioner, would often remark that my appearance would take on a youthfulness.)
What are the wisdom-seeking questions you have been asked? Who has asked them? Do you risk going beyond the limits of your knowledge? Do you leap or do you hesitate. Have you taken the leap enough times that now you walk with graceful confidence whenever a question opens the gate?
The spiritual world and the elemental world compassionately wait for your freedom-filled leaps through the gateways opened by the Thou as Questioner. They will pour wisdom upon you and you will find yourself speaking to the questioning Thou with profound and heartfelt meaning. You will not feel it is your learned or innate knowing that provides the meaning - there is no ownership of wisdom as it is free.
If you hesitate, just notice it in the luminous and gentle mood of the Holy Nights. You might want to write about the experience of hesitation. Let me ask you, "Why do you hesitate?"