When I want to know God better through Bible study, my biggest, best aids are often my own confusions. They're like big, heavy keys that can unlock new roomfulls of God's piercing and guiding light. They’re like maps to buried jewels that I’ve never seen before. They're like signed, sealed guarantees that I'm not just making a god of my own ideas. By returning to my ignorance, I have hope that I can grow.
I collect them, my biblical confusions, like gemstones, marking my Bible's margins up with question marks. That's the number one mark in my Bible, a question mark. I think that's a very good thing.