Fr. Richard Rohr writes:

“Come, Lord Jesus” is a leap into the kind of freedom and surrender that is rightly called the virtue of hope. The theological virtue of hope is the patient and trustful willingness to live without closure, without resolution, and still be content and even happy because our Satisfaction is now at another level, and our Source is beyond ourselves.

I wrestle with wanting all the little details in life to be tied up neatly and put away on the shelf. And yet, no matter how often I do the dishes and launder my clothes, new stacks always appear. Just when I think I have a grasp on life, just when I clean one room, another unravels. The endless loop frustrates and nauseates. I want to scream. I want off the ride.

“The theological virtue of hope is the patient and trustful willingness to live without closure…”

No nice resolution to this post. No story illustrating living without closure in my life. I write today not as one who has experienced the answer, but as one newly coming to grips with the real problem: no more loose ends is death.

Quotation from Fr. Richard Rorh’s Daily Meditation