“These planets collide.”

 

Z,

We will run into people all the time. It is important to note that no human is truly harmful or helpful by themselves. They are a complex web of experiences, expectations, disappointments, and the desperation we all share. We have our own webs too. When these planets collide, there is no telling what will emerge from the rubble. You have to learn to look at yourself in that light. We can be damaged, and we can also be the damage.

 

There is nothing to fear in temporary things. All damage is temporary. The human body is no match for the human soul. Jesus said: do not fear the person who can only harm your body. There is something eternal about the human experience. These present stakes are not as high as long and loud sermons tell us. In an eternal sense, they are much higher than all that. From the cheap seats of our present life, the stakes are that we learn from every rumble and the rubble that ensues. We do not learn avoidance but release. We do not learn how to avoid other planets. We learn how to put it all in context. The thing will look better in the full light of day. That day has not yet come. We learn we are on a collision course with something grander. Perhaps, our own true state.