It's in the Wind
The most common themes talked about among persons today is the ongoing wave of
sheer lunatic thinking, evil mindedness, and outright violence that smashes and bashes
us all. I am of the opinion that none of this is new.
Humans have been doing horrible
things to one another since emerged from the trees. The difference is we know about
not only more quickly but that knowledge is disseminated on a worldwide as swift as
lightning.
Humans are overwhelmed by the onslaught of awareness of hatred, political insanity,
the worship of ideology, and the capacity to threaten and kill one another whether with
firearms, automobiles, or nuclear explosions. How did we get this way? After all, by the
late 1790’s the Age of Reason in the West had peaked and many thinkers of that time
had elevated human reason to a divine status and relegated God and the Church to the
dustbin of history. A secular state led by men of high reason was the embodiment of
their dream. It has not worked out well at all has it?
For those, like myself, that are feeling a bit as though we were living in a world gone mad and helplessly standing by while so much that “was good” is trashed as though there is nothing we can do to stop the rush of the lemmings over the cliff. It is all mist unsettling.
Then, it hits me, the answer resides in two things: endurance and faithfulness. Today as I drove from my neighborhood to Walton Way and passed dry yard and drooping trees, I found a group of four maples that were arrayed in glorious red leaves. I felt a hint of coolness that by Wednesday is supposed to be much more apparent. The heat of summer is passing and change is on the way. That change has nothing to do with humans but occurs within the working of God in nature.
Soon rains will come and water the dry earth and God’s hand will be found still working from his palette of infinite color, not only in changing leaves but in those sunsets that come only with fall and winter.
To my mind, the season of God is near, very near. Thanksgiving, Advent, Christmas, Epiphany all take place in a time when the days are shorter and darker. Yet, all those events call us to pause and to know the light God is shining forth in the darkness. These days are a beacon to those who walk in the shadow of both the soul and the mind. They bid us come out of our world and into the real world where God’s glory and truth reigns forever and human empires fall away.
If one listens in this time of year, it is possible to hear the mumbled prayers of pilgrims followed by the hope giving words of prophets and the mystic notes of angels singing of a new born king, God’s best gift.
Lift up your heads, give thanks and sing. See you in church on Sunday.
- Andrew +
Humans have been doing horrible
things to one another since emerged from the trees. The difference is we know about
not only more quickly but that knowledge is disseminated on a worldwide as swift as
lightning.
Humans are overwhelmed by the onslaught of awareness of hatred, political insanity,
the worship of ideology, and the capacity to threaten and kill one another whether with
firearms, automobiles, or nuclear explosions. How did we get this way? After all, by the
late 1790’s the Age of Reason in the West had peaked and many thinkers of that time
had elevated human reason to a divine status and relegated God and the Church to the
dustbin of history. A secular state led by men of high reason was the embodiment of
their dream. It has not worked out well at all has it?For those, like myself, that are feeling a bit as though we were living in a world gone mad and helplessly standing by while so much that “was good” is trashed as though there is nothing we can do to stop the rush of the lemmings over the cliff. It is all mist unsettling.
Then, it hits me, the answer resides in two things: endurance and faithfulness. Today as I drove from my neighborhood to Walton Way and passed dry yard and drooping trees, I found a group of four maples that were arrayed in glorious red leaves. I felt a hint of coolness that by Wednesday is supposed to be much more apparent. The heat of summer is passing and change is on the way. That change has nothing to do with humans but occurs within the working of God in nature.
Soon rains will come and water the dry earth and God’s hand will be found still working from his palette of infinite color, not only in changing leaves but in those sunsets that come only with fall and winter.
To my mind, the season of God is near, very near. Thanksgiving, Advent, Christmas, Epiphany all take place in a time when the days are shorter and darker. Yet, all those events call us to pause and to know the light God is shining forth in the darkness. These days are a beacon to those who walk in the shadow of both the soul and the mind. They bid us come out of our world and into the real world where God’s glory and truth reigns forever and human empires fall away.
If one listens in this time of year, it is possible to hear the mumbled prayers of pilgrims followed by the hope giving words of prophets and the mystic notes of angels singing of a new born king, God’s best gift.
Lift up your heads, give thanks and sing. See you in church on Sunday.
- Andrew +
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