#150: Spiritual Health: Developing curiosity about God, yourself, and others with Lore Ferguson Wilbert

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Curiosity is a skill we can use to better understand each other. But can we use that same skill to grow our faith? Can we develop curiosity about ourselves: Why do we tense up the way we do around that person? Why do we always say “yes” before checking our calendar?

What does it look like to be curious about God, ourselves, and the world?

Because developing curiosity is a skill that takes time and effort to cultivate, I invited Lore Ferguson Wilbert to the show.

Today, Lore walks us through:

• How to cultivate curiosity,
• The power of sitting with “I don’t know”,
• And one question to ask a fellow Christ-follower today.

What is curiosity?

• “Curiosity is a way to cultivate love for the world, for the Lord, and even for myself.” - Lore Ferguson Wilbert
• “When we begin to look at those hard questions and really wrestle with them, that’s the thing that strengthens our faith.” - Lore Ferguson Wilbert
• “Wrestling with the question leads to a rootedness.” Jill E. McCormick

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Key quotes about curiosity and faith

• “The power of sitting in a space of ‘I don’t know.’” - Lore Ferguson Wilbert
• “When I say I don’t know something, that means there’s something for me to learn.” - Lore Ferguson Wilbert
• “There’s more to my story, and I know the One who is writing my story.” -Jill E. McCormick
• “Oftentimes, what God wants is our limp.” - Lore Ferguson Wilbert
• “We come to know Jesus in our failure. We come to know Jesus in our joy. We come to know Jesus through paths of destruction. We come to know Jesus through sweet paths.” - Lore Ferguson Wilbert
• “Orienting our lives around Jesus is the work of our lives.” - Lore Ferguson Wilbert
• “Faith is messy.” - Lore Ferguson Wilbert
• “Asking all those scary big questions leads us to the locus of His love 100% of the time.” - Lore Ferguson Wilbert
• “How is your soul?” - Lore Ferguson Wilbert

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About Lore Ferguson Wilbert

Lore Ferguson Wilbert is a writer, thinker, learner, and author of the books A Curious Faith and Handle With Care. She lives in New York with her husband Nate, a puppy named Harper Nelle, and too many books to read in one lifetime.

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