(Thanks to NASA for the photo of this and many other beauties.)
Two short thoughts:
1. When I see things like this I wonder: How could we doubt the existence of God? He is The Creator. Also I wonder how we could doubt the existence of life beyond where we are now? As much as I love my life on planet Earth, there is clearly more in store. If I believed this short experience on Earth is all there is to my existence, I'd feelconsiderably massively gypped.
1. When I see things like this I wonder: How could we doubt the existence of God? He is The Creator. Also I wonder how we could doubt the existence of life beyond where we are now? As much as I love my life on planet Earth, there is clearly more in store. If I believed this short experience on Earth is all there is to my existence, I'd feel
2. When I see things like this I am terribly aware that I know close to nothing about what is and what will be. But you know, that's okay. It keeps a sense of wonder in my soul, and I think that's healthy.
Beautiful. True. And I think you know more than you think you do, but I know what you mean. A sense of wonder is absolutely healthy. Sometimes I think things might be simpler than we imagine, though. I wonder if things seem complex mostly because of the way we dissect things to analyze them. A work of origami can seem extremely complex, and if we dissect it the wrong way it can become impossibly complex. But each work is a sequence of relatively simple folds, and someone who understands the sequence can make something incredible very quickly and almost without thinking.
ReplyDeleteAnd at the core, the creation might be "nothing" but simple white paper. All made of the same stuff.
So when I read that all good and beautiful things are created by love-faith. I think we must be getting something wrong. We must be dissecting the universe the wrong way.
When I look into the eyes of a newborn and see love and faith and wonder (in her eyes and reflected in my own being), I begin to get an inkling of something like infinite, omnipotent, simplicity.
Thanks for your insight, Mike! Thanks for pointing out infinite simplicity. I haven't considered that before. It definitely makes sense, and it's so beautiful and comforting. Also, what you wrote reminds me that our spirits *already* know the things of God! We've just forgotten how to perform the sequence of folding the origami.
ReplyDeleteintricate to decipher but yet amazing
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