Questions Never End
Written : Mistress Ravenfyre; Editor in Chief
We are a society that question. We question everything from what to eat to who is doing what to whom. Our biggest question is our life and what it is all about. Of course we question ourselves, our friends, companions and our deities and guides.
We have become seekers of the almighty answer. Seeking immediate gratification by receiving answers once asked. Patience has been over come by impatience. The old saying of “All good things take time” seems to be one that is not followed. We need and want those answers-NOW.
It is only human to question. Answers bring knowledge. Calming us, for awhile. Without questions we would not be able expand our lives with new knowledge, insight on us or those around us. We need answers.
Yet what becomes of us when answers are slow or do not come at all? How do we react?
Spiritual Questions
Our spirituality is one of the biggest question we want answered. Asking:
Who
Why
Where
When
How long
Just to name a few.
We ask our guides, guardians and our dieties for answers all the time. Show me a sign! Answer what the purpose is. Kindly clarify the situation I am going through. Tell me what is the use? These are the same questions each of us more time than once ask of our beloved deities.
There are times when these questions seem not to be answered. But maybe they are we just didn’t hear or see the answer that was given
Working on the Answer
Asking the question is easy. Receiving is the hard part. I often wonder if those guides, guardians and deities ever think that we ask to much and never hear them? Do they sit and say out loud “How do I send them the answer this time?” or “Here we go again”. Who answers their questions about us? Surely not us.
Sending the answer is tricky as most are not open to the act and art of seeing and hearing. Becoming deaf and blind to what has been sent to us. Thinking about have you ever had an occurrence of the same thing over and over? You just saw it but it did not sink in till much later in time? After it hit you was the answer all that important or needed as in the beginning? How did you feel when it finally did sink in?
When the answer has not been answered within a reasonable time we ask again. Changing the words and statements as we think that maybe we were not clear in what we asked. Sometimes we make the question more complicated than the first time we asked. We wait.
What is Heard or Seen? Nothing? Something? Everything?
Yet we did not get it at all. Ignored the answer as it did not hit us over the head like a cosmic brick. Acting with anger, exasperation, intolerance and impatience we gave up.
Some walk away or even change paths when answers are not given. Feeling that they no longer believe or maybe a different deity will serve them better. Not long after doing all this there they are again knocking at the door with another of the same question. They know that with the changes made surely an answer is coming. What a shock. Nothing again.
Why the Cold Shoulder?
You may have already been given the answer. Answers may not come instantly. In fact some may never be answered. Leaving us to solve the question on our own. BINGO! Your answer. We have been sent a sign that we must do it on our own. Here we have been assuming that the answer was ignored, it was there all the time. Feeling pretty silly now aren’t you?
The answer was solve it yourself. Taking a look at our past and present may help you with what you need to have answered. Look at the signs you may have received but chose to ignore or over look. Maybe you didn’t like what you were sent so you ignored it continuing to ask away. Were there repeated signs, events or anything that stands out? Might have been in the form of a key word, statement, animal or color just to name a few. Take a long, cool look at those. Once you have you might be able to find your answer within. Repetitive answering is common until we simply “get it". Once we do get it we are able to move along to, well, another question.
Leaving It Up To Us
We have to stand on our own two feet at times. Our deities know this. As Free Will is so very important in our growth as individuals. Having the Free Will in order to make our own mistakes, solving our own problems our way. We learn that we are free will thinkers and our pieties love this about us. They may like our choices, especially when they are bad, but they smile knowing that we will realize our mistakes. Sooner or later that is.
When we are not answered outwardly by our deities they are showing us respect as humans. That is the part of why we are so loved by them and we return that love to them. Respect. Admiration. Trust.
By not answering us they have answered us. No matter how frustrating it is on both the deities and us, we must try on our own. If we do not we become dependent upon them and this is not what they wish us to be. We are independent, creative beings that entertain, anger and give happiness to our jadeites. Being dependent upon them would create unhealthy thoughts and love. I am sure that this would not be something that they would enjoy.
Help Carrying Your Burdens
We place far to much of our burdens on our deities lately. We ask. We request. We demand. With each of the above we give away a little something negative of our selves to them. We are no longer working, striving, loving counterparts. We are greedy, self absorbed, spoiled brats. It is no wonder that our answers at times are so slow or not received.
Have we in our hectic and stressful lives focused these emotions onto our deities as well?
Do they feel the stress? Do they have stress management classes?
Questions never stop. Now do they?