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Continuing to read the Unnecessary Pastor:

Peterson on mystery:

It is not something we do not know but something that is too much to know. It takes considerable humility to embrace this mystery, for in the presence of mystery we are not in a position to control anything, to predict or manage, or to pose as authorities, to, as we say, "master the subject." But it does leave much room for worship, for there is no worship where there is no mystery.

If we deal with life as a problem we reduce it to what we can do something about.....there is an important place for figuring things out and and for fixing.... but if that is all we do we become myopic managers and mechanics with no peripheral vision..we miss most of life. If we appraoch life as a mystery we are forever coming up with meanings that exceed our definitions, energy and resources unguessed in our calculations. Mystery is not the absence of meaning but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend.