From
Hebrews 11:1-2
H,
What
was I on about again? Yes, the place to come over the scourge of the now. We
are always prisoners of our now. There is always some nagging voice inside
telling us that it is all in the now and things will never get better. We cannot
outgrow our childish bouts of sin and succor. We cannot escape our past
misdeeds. It says: if you have started you might as well finish. It tells us
there are fine men and women walking around the surface of the earth and we
might as well just lay ourselves in the dust and die because we will never be
that eloquent in living. What can we do but be products of the now?
A
lie, damn lies and statistics, is what that voice is. We must move on to what
the poet calls: “vision over visibility.” We must have a stronger grasp of the
thing we are involved in. We cannot believe in all the grandeur and poetry of
an invisible deity and one that He has all the power in the universe but still
think our stuff is too large for Him. He cannot be cosmically larger than
everything but intimately small. He has to loom large in all. He has to be able
to change minds, hearts as well as form galaxies.
I am
thinking we have to let Him in more. Faith is the giving over of our whole
lives to God. It is that divine marriage where all the sacred and mundane
aspects of everyday life are brought into the light of His will. We have to
care what He thinks and go about with the thought in our heads that the way He
suggests is the way we should take. I have found it is not prison to do this. The
freest people are the ones who are made boundless by minds free of gravity. The
gospel merely states the heart can be free too. It tells us all our hungers
have some shape and all our longing has a home. It unbundles the myth that all
we have is now and all we will ever be is the now. It says we are not merely
the sum of past deeds but the destiny of a divine sacrifice and we can be made
whole in that new reality. It says to us, who doubt all things and suffer all
things and want whole lives where body, mind, heart, Soul dwell in peace, that
such a synergy of self is possible. It says, have vision over visibility and all
good things will be yours.
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