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A Prayer for Ambiguity Lord, I ask for Your constant protection from the threatening temptations of certainty for I have no desire to know beyond doubt the natural origin of the physical universe, the neurological workings of the human brain, the biochemical mechanisms for pity or greed, the statistical variability of the stock market, nor the logical answer to "Why are we here?" On the contrary, Lord, cloak me in ambiguity. Let me see multiplicity in all things. Let the literal merge indistinguishably with the metaphorical. Let this life of biological organisms be no more bound by the unyielding constraints of science than by the limits of our imagination, which are, all too often, more restrictive. Lord, fill me with a glorious uncertainty. Let my experience with the indeterminacy of this existence guide my actions henceforth. Lord, grant me the courage to announce to the throng of air molecules crowding me that I have received a revelation, potentially divine, which prompts me now to declare, "Not knowing is the triumph of evolution." |
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A Prayer for Ambiguity David Keffer Knoxville, TN October 8, 2014 |