Wise counsel is sometimes found in unexpected places. The following is from Maisie Dobbs (the first in a series of Maisie Dobbs mysteries by Jacqueline Winspear):
Truth walks toward us on the paths of our questions… Wait awhile in the stillness, and do not rush to conclusion, no matter how uncomfortable the unknowing.
Notice that here the truth is actively moving toward us, not elusive or fleeing us, and using our own questions as a means of reaching us. If this is true, then people who tell us not to ask questions may be hindering our way to God, who is Truth. (Of course, for the questions themselves to become a path for divine Truth, we must make sure they are real questions, and not defiant certainties disguised as questions.)
The image of truth walking toward us is faithful to what we know of our God, who actively pursues us – who seeks us, even when we least deserve to be found.
We can also be confident that in our unknowing, before the questions are answered, we are already in God the All-Knowing. We can sit quietly even in our darkness and confusion, trusting that we remain in God.
Yet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk,
I took them up in my arms;
but they did not know that I healed them.
I led them with cords of human kindness,
with bands of love.Hosea 11:3-4