what's your guiding question?

In that past my question has always been in flux.

It's changed depending on where I was and what I was doing and the shifting space of my insecurities and concerns. And it's generally been characterized by anxiety.

Questions no longer make me anxious. (But this is, perhaps, quite obvious; I get to pose a new one here each morning. My daily question, then, is "What is today's question? What will I ask today?") I love how they open doors, and love how they focus attention, and love how they include wonder. I love their power.

So in the past my guiding questions have changed, all circling anxiously around the usual existential concerns of "why... why... why...?", and it's funny to realize, now, that my deeper question, for some time now, has been steady. What am I called to? I love this question because it requires stillness, and listening, and attention. I love this question because it speaks to possibility. I love this question because it reminds me to be open.

And I wonder what my next guiding question will be.