A Mystery to be Explored

"Life is not so much a problem to be solved as a mystery to be explored... life is not something we manage to hammer together and keep in repair by our wits; it is an unfathomable gift. We are immersed in mysteries: incredible love, confounding evil, the creation, the cross, grace, God...Pastors are guides through the mysteries... our most important work is directing worship in the traffic, discovering the presence of the cross in the paradoxes and chaos between Sundays, calling attention to the 'splendor in the ordinary,' and most of all, teaching a life of prayer to our friends and companions in the pilgrimage." Eugene Peterson, The Contemplative Pastor