Trying to take it apart; to defuse it. I want to see what
wires I can cut without making it go off.
I heard someone say, “If I hadn’t
believed it, I wouldn’t have seen it.”
This is true of the color blue and
it’s just as true of me and you. I think the thing we refer to as God is the
same thing we refer to as love and that’s just the same as life. All of this is
synonymous. We cannot take love out of it. What is happening, as I write with
this keyboard and this computer, is God speaking but completely through the
thing I think of as me. All expression is inspired. I have got it all wrong
when I think that there is a brain in my head that instructs my hands and eyes
to put down in writing what it thinks. The truth is that there is a much bigger
brain which tells my brain to tell my hands to do what they do. The continuity
of it all is liberating. My hands cannot live without me, but I can live
without my hands. I am sure I would not like to lose my hands because they seem
to make my life easier. But imagine how devastated my hands would be if they
lost me. They’d cease. They’d no longer have any kind of life in them. I could
plant them in a garden and they’d eventually fade forever from the planet. Even
the bones of my hands would eventually turn to dust. Suppose I could live a
thousand years beyond my hands. And suppose, within those years, I never grew
more hands. Would I be less alive?
This is how God sees me and my
beloved brain. “Oh you precious boy; you think you are doing this independent
of me. That’s cute.” He might say.
But the thing beyond and greater
than myself will be here when I am cut off from this world as an individual.
An indeterminate hypothesis is
often referred to as religion and religions want to have the last word. They
are there to fill in the gaps left by logic and science. However, if it is what
we use to fill in the gaps, there is a very good chance we are wrong. This can
be seen clearly by looking back over the centuries and the religions imposed
upon each generation.
I’d personally like to remove the
fillers and let science fill in the gaps; let the religions fail and then
reintroduce religions whenever science fixes a place for them.
In my experience, we’ve only used
God as an answer when we had no other answer. We came up with a theory about
how the planet got people on it and then came science with a much better
answer. By trying to establish God as an engineer, we’ve taken away His
credentials. He never put “Engineer” on His own résumé.
If we had left God alone with His
poetry, He would have been recognized for it by now, but by insisting that He
is a Universe Builder instead, no one is willing to hear His poetry now. They
think He said that He made the universe the way Al Gore said he developed the
internet.
If I tell you that I made Mt
Everest, you would likely not hear me if I say, “You are beautiful and I do
love you.”
You’d still be thinking about my
claim. You’d want me to go away.
The same thing might happen if one
of my friends tell you that they know me. “He is good. He made Mt Everest and
he is just a loving person. I know he made Mt Everest because he said so.”
Then you happen to meet me and
you’ve already got this idea about me. But maybe I never said that to my friend.
Perhaps my friend thought it would impress you if he said all that about Mt
Everest and then you’d want to meet me more. But it doesn’t work that way.
I did not create Mt Everest.
You are beautiful and I do love
you.
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