Learning to Fall

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Learning to Fall
Thursday, February 5, 2015
Jeff Lampl

                          ^“God’s mysterious plan, which is Christ himself.
                In him lie hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.”
                                             Colossians 2:2-3 (NLT)

Phil Simmons wrote the book “Learning to Fall,” and here’s what he wrote about his biggest “lesson learned”.   He writes that our culture is about accomplishing things.  We see life as a set of problems to be solved.  We perceive problems and then we solve the problems.  So we have books like “Six Ways to Find [A Mate”, “Eight Steps To A Successful Marriage,”  “Nine Ways To Improve Your Finances,” We have problems, and we solve them.  

But here’s where we go wrong.  For at its deepest level life is not a problem, but a mystery.  Problems are to be solved.  True mysteries are not.  He writes,

“I wish I could have learned this lesson more easily.  Each of us is brought to the cliff’s edge.  At such moments we can either back away in bitterness or confusion or we can leap off the cliff into mystery.  We hand ourselves over.  We can participate in mystery only by letting go of solutions.  This letting go is the first lesson of falling and it is the hardest.”  

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