I saw it in an article written by the Harvard philosophy professor Michael Sandel, and he attributed it to a theologian named William F May. I really like that phrase. We seem to be so hung up on controlling things and on being able to predict what will happen. I am not advocating chaos, but sometimes it is nice to sit back and let things happen, especially if there is nothing you can do about it.

I am thinking of all the interminable discussions now about what is going to happen in the Middle East by all the supposed pundits who did not see it coming. Wouldn’t it be nice for once if someone used the phrase “I don’t know”? I know what I would like to see happen, but as to what is actually going to take place, I really don’t know and neither does anyone else.