19/07/2016

H,

So what do we do with this passion we think must be ingrained in our souls by God? We cannot stop the fire that calls us to create, to participate, to become one with other things and make that the reason for why we breathe oxygen. The human soul craves, it wants, it is constantly looking into every hole to find purpose and, thereafter, fulfilment. Let us not deny this. Two thousand years of bowing and kneeling and listening to sermons has not changed this craving. Let us face it so we do not create duality. Duality has no place in the Christian life. Christ came to make us whole. Whole human beings.

There is place for the passion hidden in our gifts and yearnings. There is nothing creative or ambitious or shaped like a craving or made up in our hearts as vital that needs to be killed. Self, selfishness, the nest of lies that make us less human and the need to compete are impulses that must die. Not the creativity inherent in art or the sense of wonder in science or the sense of wonder in art and the creativity in science. Nor the need to build things and share value that are the best traits in business, governance, technology and many other fields that make the world a palliative sense of a place before the Kingdom comes. There is a place for the full extent of the human heart on this present plane. Yet, we must note that it is just a place and not the whole picture.

We are made to be more than what we things we do. The mark we leave, and this is really a silly concept in people hoping for a new heaven and a new earth and who believe-know that ill justice and lack on any patch of earth must mean there is a serious deviation from plot that needs to be addressed, for lack of a better phrase, must be on lives and not artifacts and it must be from who we are and not merely what we do or did. The whole picture of us is not only in what we long to do but must be subservient to the kind of person we long to be.