There isn’t a right answer.
There just isn’t. The game show
where the bells ring and the points
go up and the confetti falls
because you got the answer is a lie.
The preacher who would assure you
of how to attain salvation
is making it all up. The doctor who knows just how to fix
what ails you will be sure of something else tomorrow.
Every choice will wound someone, heal someone,
build a wall and open a conversation.
Things will always happen that you can’t foresee.
But you have to choose.
It’s all we have—that little rudder
that we employ in the midst
of all the eddies and rapids,
the current that pulls us inexorably toward the sea.
The fact that you are swept along
by the river is no excuse.
Watch where you are going.
Lean in toward what you love.
When in doubt, tell the truth.
Lynn Ungar is an author and minister of the Church of the Larger Fellowship www.lynnungar.com
