Questions

Does everyone go through a time of questioning all the "givens" we've been told all our lives? I remember doing that with my beliefs and someone I love very much is doing that now. I remember actually going so far as to buck the institutional church by creating a "new" set of systems, only to find that, it too, had imperfections. Now I am on the verge of going back into the very same system that I was originally involved with. I have weathered some pretty significant storms by bucking and re-entering only to arrive where I had begun, hopefully a bit wiser. I guess there is something to be said for the wisdom that comes from the years. I only wish we could learn from those who have gone before us, so we could avoid the fall out of trying something "new" only to find there may not be anything "new" out there. Maybe part of the journey that this life takes us through is learning things the hard way or coming to grips with the fact that maybe the Bible is true all along...there is nothing new under the sun. I'm just not sure what to do with the rest of that verse...everything is vanity. Well, maybe I'll tackle that next time.