Curiosity is making a comeback. My little nephew loves Curious George, the little monkey that I remember from when I was a kid. The fun stories about George and the Man with the Yellow Hat help him embrace a healthy and good form of curiosity.
Curiosity has cured viruses and diseases. Curiosity has given us amazing things like vaccines, airplanes, iPhones, and Silly Putty. Curiosity helped us discover the world is round and helped us to land a human on the moon. Curiosity gives young people the courage to ask someone out on their first date, and curiosity gives us the intrigue needed to try to figure out the needs of our kids, all of whom are very different.
Curiosity has offered all these things to the world, and yes, it has brought some danger and risk. Like anything in life, it can lead to good and evil, blessings and curses, and everything in between. But what curiosity leads to, more than anything else, is a deeper sense of curiosity. Awe, wonder, and mystery are fueled by curiosity. Curiosity isn’t safe, but hopefully now you can see that it’s good.
Curiosity has saved my faith more than once, and curiosity has changed my life in ways that fill me with gratitude. If you make the commitment to stay curious in your life, you will arrive at some of the answers you seek. But there is no doubt that you will also arrive at deeper questions. For that you can be thankful, because sometimes what we want in life are more answers but what we really need are better questions. So stay curious my friends, because God is found in the questions, not only in the answers.
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