“The high price of being human”

H,

We all have a tendency to shut off from the pain of the world and become immune to the suffering of others. I suppose they are good reasons for this. We all have a plate of suffering in front of us. There is enough sadness around but none to spare. It is far easier to focus on specific pain than general anguish. We cannot solve the problems of the world and so on and so on.

And some of that is absolutely valid; we cannot save the world or cure many of its ill by mere empathy. We cannot even save it by constructive and sustained action. It would require too much work, or a draconian state of things were all evil thoughts are banned and only the best intentions, generally agreed upon by a congress of the human whole, are allowed to flourish into action. It would be 1984, with a human heart.

The problem, of course, is that 1984 did start with a human heart. It began with the best of intentions. It was trying to solve famine, hunger, inequality, violence and the freedom to be bad.

I think, and this is from a dark glass viewpoint, that the grand design is the reformation of the human heart. Valhalla, heaven, utopia, or whatever guise we call the perfect state, is only possible within the human heart. We can either be heaven or hell to each other.

This is the state that we are being led to. This is the fulcrum of love and power and the light shining forever. We are either becoming more like the fire that lights up the universe or more like the darkness that will end before forever starts. There is no middle ground.

The high cost of being human is that we learn how little control we actually have over the vastness of time and space. The high cost of being human is also that we learn that the little we do control, love and light and being like Christ, is the spice of the Universe and will change the nature of everything else.