I've Got Questions: The Spiritual Practice of Having It Out with God

by Erin Hicks Moon

One of the greatest gifts we offer to one another is the reminder we aren’t alone.

this is the time to fully live into the season of wrestling and questioning and discerning to which the Spirit has called you. Far from a sign of apostasy, I believe your own wilderness season of faith will actually become an altar of intimacy with God and genuine transformation for you.

A life of honest, wrestling faith does not keep you from kinship with Jesus. Critiquing the institution of Christianity does not mean you hate it; it means you want it to be as good as it claims to be. You do not have to fall in line. You do not have to let other people’s actions and beliefs determine how you will move and live and love in the world.

Beloved, trust God. Trust God’s Spirit in you. Trust the questions fomenting in the marrow of your bones that feel like they will break you. They might, but you are being made new too. You don’t have to prove your journey (drink) to anyone. God can speak to you just as easily as anyone else.

I am God’s beloved. The truest thing about me is that I am God’s beloved.