Proverbs 3
H,
First, a happy new year in
writing. It has been a shake and a tumble since we last used letters to make
words and then talk. You know the obvious reasons. The major upheavals and epic
reversals that are the just signifier of an ordinary life occurred. We have
that old argument between us about literature where I go on about the epic
scale of the normal life and you make those hateful snoring sounds to show me
how you don’t care. Well, this year, I think, proved my point in a glance. It grew
out of our hands and ended far off the moorings from which it began. Details
ruin the mystery of context so it is fair to say only that we do not know
anything and our faux pas certainties are the more the mark of ignorance than
the sign of wisdom.
Is this not the thing Elyon
has been telling us over the years? We make these sweeping statements about our
lives, about others, about the road ahead but we only live in the present
predicted by the past. We give no credence to the outlier of the blind side. This
is a good space to start the New Year in: we know in part, we see in part, we
prophesy in part, we live in parts but we are called to be whole in love. “Part”
seems hyperbolic. We see in blurred images and undeveloped pictures.
This is not the life we
wanted, is it? We thought the years would change God and we would know better. We
are the ones who have always needed the change. It is like you said the other
day, the old ode to power packs and one minute calls and simple love.
Wisdom is to know how much
we do not know. It is to encounter this vast ignorance daily and to embrace it
as a start. We can only be taught anything if we admit we need to learn it. So,
dear friend, enough with this interrupting God and rolling our eyes at new
lessons disguised as “things we should have known ten years ago.” We do not
know them yet and that is why the lessons are reappearing. We are not on the
stupid clock of seventy years plus. We are not running a race that is a slightly
spookier version of the rat race. This is about the things that will always be
and the person we will be in eternity. It will take a fair stretch of time to
move from these sinful bodies into a heavenly home-space. How long?
Well, we do not know now do
we?
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