A Story Unfinished by Matt Mooney

Author:Matt Mooney
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Nazarene Publishing House
Published: 2013-02-21T00:00:00+00:00

MARGIN FOR MYSTERY

I am naturally a rational being, an appetite served steady diets of lard during my years spent pursuing a legal education. So I cannot write about rainbows and not imagine readers expecting my next chapter to contain leprechauns, mermaids, and the like. I prefer to explain things in all their detail, to understand in entirety the world in which I walk, and to grapple with what I do not until question marks morph into periods. I, also instinctively, doubt others and harbor mistrust for most people I encounter. So I get it if you cannot buy what I am selling. I could not either if I were you. Except I lived it, and instead, I cannot deny it. I actually think God painted the sky on that day for me.

I now leave margin for mystery. Eliot ushered in all sorts of wild rainbow stories in multitudinous fashion. I am holding on to some of the others for myself. Not because I care what you would think—I moved beyond you long ago. I hold on to them for myself, because sometimes the flames tucker out when the burning escapes the heart in an attempt to decipher the elements of fire under the microscope of public scrutiny. God is alive and active in our world. And He comes near often in some of the worst times in our lives. He allows His coming to be discounted, but He still comes.

Ours is a world uncomfortable with mystery. With only sound bites from the political talking heads on the screen, I, and most likely you, have slotted them into a category in which I am aware of what they think about foreign policy, wealth distribution, and the right to bear arms. In addition to simpleton definitions of persons, over the last twenty years technology has produced a bombardment of data. If there is anything I do not understand, I am able to conduct a search that will almost immediately yield information sufficient to make me relatively knowledgeable on a subject I knew nothing about just minutes before. (Of course, the difference between information and actual understanding is a large one. Though via web search I may find libraries of data on Einstein’s theory of relativity, it does not therefore mean I am any closer to insight.) However, this bourgeoning access to information coupled with notions of scientific advances may have served to lull us into a belief that someone somewhere understands each and every one of the very things I do not. To counteract this onslaught of input, I have developed ways to efficiently decipher, slice, and categorize all that comes my way.

But with Eliot I rounded corners to rainbows made for me. I had no explanation. I knew in that instant that some things in life are incapable of comprehension. Instead of reaching for clarifications or allowing my preset mechanism of deduction to take over, I began to see that claiming a relationship with the God of the universe is many things, but rational is not one of them.

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