Circles
Well Friends, lets blog a little. Kinda like a dance, flowing in and out of each others space in time, holding and processing each others thoughts. The mystery, the maddness, the mayhem of life are both overwhelming to the senses and stimulating to the soul. I chose this template because I have laerned now, viewing the world from the youthful playground of my old age, that life is just that ....a circle dance we do, and we are always being drawn back into that center, smaller and smaller until we are absorbed by some great something that receives our small speck, and takes it home. The world is swirling around us in magnificent power, force unleashed against our small planet, we the people of this planet have unleashed some, others spat out on the tongue of God for us to absorb with awestruck wonder. And my heart crys out with the simplest of questions...how do so many at one time squeeze thru the tunnel of light into the great hand of grace? Hundreds of thousands of people on the head of a pin vying for supremecy, for position, to enter the gates of whatever waits on the other side of this massive devastation. I suspect God is angry at the human race. We have failed so utterly to learn our lessons despite many prophets and many books, many claiming to the the "One", the real answer, from the real God. But each book hearlded humanities connection and people have used the pages to build their insurmountable walls of seperation. But I know there is only one and no matter how many names we choose to give him He will remain just as He is , always has been, and always will be. Therefore I shall simply allow myself to fall into the safety of belief that it is ok to remain in the mystery, to watch the mayhem, to touch the maddness and know that the circle spins and somehow safely holds the specks of creation and tenderly takes them home. For those of us left it is up to us to find a better way of loving one another. For if our beliefs in right and wrong serve to seperate us only furthur then there is something gravely wrong with that which we think is right.
posted by Unknown @ 7:42 AM
2 Comments:
Thanks for the comment Judi, and of course you are absolutely right...for both reasons. Saying something concisely has never been my strong suit....me and John Kerry:-) of course we were born on the same day in the same year and have many astrological positions the same...poor dude, I voted for him but I often wondered if he was suited to the job knowing myelf as I do:-)
I'll work on it...paragraphs, perhaps simplicity, but then simplicity might be asking too much of myself.
Happy New Year!
Welcome 2005! You open your arms and bid the world step into your embrace. And what will we give you and what will we attempt to extact?
I do not understand the enormity of the issues currently on the table in the banquet hall of our "topsy turvy" universe. The continued existence of mankind seems somehow connected to the continued perpetuation of war. Ethnic and religious people hurl their swords of savagery at each other in the name of some great god they believe supports them and is against the other. And what they can't see is their fundamental similarity. From primitive hand held weapons to ones of sificient power and sophistication to annililate the present human race if we start hurling them at each other...which seems quite plausible. We find ourselves here, having sent our children one more time to sacrifice themselves on the battlefild of mans distorted dreams of power and glory.
But what if we see ourselves as the "music makers, the dreamers of dreams" as Arthur O'Shaughnessy said.
What if? Then couldn't we choose , as some do, to dance a the rhythm of harmony, not the discordanct sounds of hate.
We can believe in the dream of dismanteling the walls of intorlerance with their bricks and mortor of bigotry, and lies.
The rage of our earth runs deep with ancient mans blood, and we spill more today, and we wonder why God shakes the earth and spills His tears across her shores.
And I believe that if we do not wake from the slumber of our belief in might as an answer, we will find the world has turned and done a "Topsy turvy" dance as worlds will often do...history bares witness in all her tales. And he who sits at the head of the table in the seat of power shall no longer occupy that place...for no nation rules forever, no ruler lives that long. All things spin in the circle of life, all things connected, no random acts at all...the last shall be first and the first shall then be last...only lessons in the great schoolyard of life, and on that playground we all know the winners always find themselves losers and the losers always somehow end up at the winners table with some beat of the circle dance. So life really is a gamble, without winners or losers as we twirl. We are all ultimately too connected to not be brought down by anothers suffering, and lifted up by anothers celebration..our humanity makes it so.
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