The Great Surmise

Last week I ordered a book called Seeds of Devotion by Roger Butts, a hospital chaplain in Colorado. It was one of those ‘Recommended for You’ books that pops up on Amazon when you are ordering another book. I have just started reading it, yet already I am finding it to be a beautiful and inspiring read.

The author shares that at a critical time in his life, when he was wracked with self-doubt and confusion, he came across a single paragraph in a book of essays that provided him with the comfort he needed at the time. He says it was ‘his lighthouse and life jacket’ for those days and that it showed him the path home.

Here is the paragraph:
”The Great Surmise says simply this: At the heart of all creation lies a good intent, a purposeful goodness, from which we come, by which we live our fullest, to which we shall at last return. And this is the supreme reality of our lives.” Carl Scovel

Isn’t this paragraph a beauty? Roger then goes on to offer us the following reflection questions:

1) What do you think is at the heart of all creation?

2) What is the supreme reality of your life?

3) When you’ve been disoriented, confused, uncertain, has a passage or a mantra helped you? if so, what was it and how did it come to you?

Wow! What juicy questions! I have had the best morning contemplating them and writing out my answers.
I just had to share them with you too!!