Each month, a member of the board will share a reflection on the Soul Matters monthly theme. The theme for December is Mystery. This month’s post is offered by Board Vice President, Shelley Buss. 

The Gift of Mystery: When I started college, I was going to be a doctor. I took biology, chemistry, and a bunch of other classes, assuming that “head down, study hard” was going to keep working like it did in high school. Then came Sr. Dunstan’s first biology test. I think I bombed it because I misidentified amoeba slides. And in my 18 year old brain, I thought that was the dumbest thing in the world, so what did I do? I switched majors to something that wasn’t so black and white; that didn’t rely on memorizing all that boring esoteric stuff. I went with Philosophy. Yes- discussions and arguments and interpretations. Nothing esoteric there, right? That was the study of mystery; all the giant WHY questions. I can’t tell you how many nights I never went to bed because I was busy postulating and proselytizing with my friends and classmates. I loved it. The gift of those mysteries was thinking that we were all so darn smart with 2 decades of experience under our belts and half-baked brains.

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