March 2025

Suppose Eve had simply said “Nah, I’m good,” instead of munching on a piece of shiny fruit. Suppose Mary, Martha’s sister, had chosen to act as a hostess instead of sitting and listening to the words of Jesus. What if Pharaoh’s daughter had let the basket float its way down the river?

Suppose Mary Magdalene, holding her basket of anointing herbs, had simply backed away slowly from the open tomb rather than looking inside.

The Bible encourages us to dream, to look beyond the mundane, to “Seek, and ye shall find.” It would be harder to imagine the kingdom on earth if we didn’t investigate practical ways to bring it about.

It would be a challenge to reinvent our ministries without contemplating our evolving world. It would be impossible to know our neighbors without sincere wonder.

Without searching our hearts, we couldn’t be the Christians we aspire to be.

Searching isn’t a guarantee that we will like what we find. But without searching, we will not find our way closer to each other, the will of God or to God. In this issue of the Outlook, we wonder about curiosity.