I have so many questions I can't answer. Should I stop?
Unanswered questions feel like grounds to leave quietly. A crowd did exactly that after one hard teaching. Peter, asked whether he was going too, replied with a question rather than a resolution — and stayed. That is not certainty. It is staying without having it settled.
The conversation
The child: “Daddy God, I have so many questions I can't answer. Should I stop?”
God: “A whole crowd did stop, once. They heard a hard teaching and left.”
The child: “Did the disciples leave too?”
God: “I asked them: 'Will ye also go away?'”
God: “Peter answered with a question instead of an answer.”
The child: “What did he say?”
God: “'Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.'”
God: “That isn't certainty. That's staying without having it resolved.”
The child: “So he still had questions?”
God: “Plenty. He just had nowhere better to take them.”
The child: “My questions haven't gone.”
God: “They don't have to. Bring them here rather than away from here.”
The child: “Then I'm staying. Questions and all.”
God: “That's all faith ever was.”
"Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life." John 6:68, KJV
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