"But I still haven't found what I'm looking for..."

This well-known phrase from a U2 song has had different meanings for me. I'm the kind of person that, theoretically, likes to listen to the words of a song, and listen closely. In the case of this song, I haven't done that. I used to think, as a know-it-all Christian, that Bono and the boys should simply get on with it and "quit your whining." If you still haven't found what you're looking for, then you're "Looking for love in all the wrong places." I now have a much better understanding of his chorus.

I recently read a Rolling Stone interview of Bono.

"Bono gives us a vision of how tomorrow can be better than today. He appeals to something greater than ourselves. He tells the story of his life and struggles in terms everyone can understand. He speaks about faith in a way that even a nonbeliever can embrace."

Reading further, Bono indicates that the song, 'I still haven't found What I'm Looking For', is an anthem of doubt more than faith.

I'm nearly halfway through the book I started yesterday. Rumours of Another World is not a book about answers. In fact it's all about the questions...thought-provoking, life questions. Like a hearty Burgundy compliments lamb, so too Bono's song of doubt and his faith story would be complimented by this book. It nicely meets my current need to be challenged intellectually and spiritually. It is not a typical Christian read: filled with overstated agendas and calling out to join the saved; but rather it is an invitation to join in a journey of discovery that could point the way to a new life of beauty, purpose and freedom. It's about getting a fresh perspective...other-world perspective: that "even a non-believer can embrace."

"We are all of us more mystics than we believe or choose to believe...We have seen more than we let on, even to ourselves. Through some moment of beauty or pain, some subtle turning of our lives, we catch glimmers at least of what the saints are blinded by; only then, unlike the saints, we go on as though nothing has happened. To go on as though nothing has happened, even though we are not sure what it was or just where we are supposed to go with it, is to enter the dimention of life that religion is a word for.

Frederick Buechner

I think I've had enough of just the religious dimention...but spirituality without religion, sometimes leaves people disconnected from community. I'm looking for the right definitions and the right balance.