H,
It is because everything
matters that we are free to be part of this great adventure while freeing ourselves
from the burden of pride, the need to be seen and the ego that propels us to
think we are the centre of things. The human experience is not at the centre of
the universe. The human soul is not the most important thing that ever was. This
does not mean it is nothing. It means it is part of everything and will find
its true bearing by being in everything eventually. Imagine it like this: in
the ocean there are no drops of water separate from other drops of water. Everything
is one thing. Vast and endless in quantity but one thing tied together. This is
what I believe eternity is. The binding together of all things into one.
Free of that speculation,
which is all it is, and free of trying to outshine and outdo one another, we
can learn to be part of one another and bound into God. There will not be a
missing drop, a missing part of the great flock of Christ or a missing person. The
burden, we are told, is light because all we have to be is who we are. All we
have to do is be.
Imagine this: not that we
are free of consequence or that we do not see the world as something worth
saving but that we know what final consequence is and our faith and fate in it
is to be a person more like our original, natural self as we are being forged
into eternal identity. That the troubles of the world do weigh heavy but that
is only us forming into God’s heart. That we fight crippling inertia and
vigorously pursue our own path and that is only walking with God. That we learn
to be of service to others and love them not as tools or emblems of our value
but as fellow travellers and as part of a family in God.
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