searching on Ascension Day

My sister was telling me the other week about the vital role searching has in processing change. Her naming of this has given me space for those feelings. Today's sermon given by my Chaplain colleague picked up that same theme, she quoted Rainer Maria Rilke in her ‘Letters to a Young Poet’:

Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and books written in a foreign language. Do not look for the answer. They cannot now be given to you because you could not love them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to love the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself, experiencing the answer, one distant day.

Rilke's talk of a foreign language reminds me of the wait for the Spirit to come at Pentecost.