I was speaking with a friend who was frustrated with all that was happening around us and wished he could do more. He was struggling and wanted to contribute to the conversation going on in our world today, but didn’t know how.

There are some pretty big and hearty topics we can be rallying behind and putting our efforts towards. There are also already strong, articulate, powerful, voices out there standing up for…

• climate and environmental issues
• the pandemic and the health and welfare of human lives
• corporate corruption and capitalistic command
• justice, healing and freedom for suppressed societies and undervalued people
  …are a few that are top of mind.

I don’t know about you, but I too struggle with finding my voice in the midst of it all.

I ask myself:

‘How do I add something positive, something meaningful, something that will contribute to the evolutionary growth of our planet and humanity?’

It’s a big question and to be completely honest with you, often I don’t have a profound or magnanimous answer.

A dear colleague shared this powerful quote with me:

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.” Rainer Maria Rilke

Living the question is what matters now more than ever.

Using your voice to ask questions not only of yourself, but of others, is how we can use our voice in the midst of all this noise.

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” Albert Einstein

Your voice is not only valid when you have information to share, knowledge to declare, insights to impart or directions to give.

Your voice can be found in your questions.

The courage to express what you don’t know.

The vulnerability to invite a new perspective.

The humbleness to reveal the voice of leadership that has always stood by the sidelines, unwavering, discerning and faithfully committed to something more than to itself.

You may not know the answers to those big questions.

But you know better than that.

Wisdom lies in your willingness to ask.

If you’re compelled to share your thoughts and insights, I’d love to hear from you. Reply to this note and let me know what questions you are pondering.

With love,

Finka