An Auxano team member is reading through C.S. Lewis in 2009. She sent me an excerpt from the Screwtape Letters where Screwtape (a demon) is speaking. He says that God wants us to ask and answer simple, relevant questions. Therefore the strategy of the evil one is to ask irrelevant questions that keep our "minds buzzing in a vacuum."
The Enemy... loves platitudes. Of a proposed course of action He wants men, so far as can see, to ask very simple questions; is it righteous? is it prudent? is it possible? Now if we keep men asking, 'Is it in accordance with the general movement of our time? Is it progressive or reactionary? Is this the way history is going?' they will neglect the relevant questions. And the questions they do ask are, of course, unanswerable; for they do not know the future, and what the future will be depends very largely on just those choices they now invoke the future to help them make. As a result while their minds are buzzing in this vacuum, we have the better chance to slip in and bend them to the action we have decided on."
My question is, "What questions are you asking as you enter 2009?" Are they relevant?