In your view, is this exploration ever over?
Something John , as deep a philosopher as Christianity could have hoped for or true disciple as Rabbi Jesus could have longed for ... John was saying very neatly about comprehending/knowing (you can refresh this quote if incomplete)
"the length, width, depth and breadth of things "
What a remarkable challenge that is ? And goes fairly hand in hand with that little sign that Einstein had up on his door some 2000yrs later :
Message 22508730
"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."
So if life is a feast & a banquet we find ourselves in the midst of, and even more now that we know how much more expanded the extent of this world ties into a greater Universe .... when do you think that you will be able to sit at the table and be able to conduct/carry yourself with enough humility , restraint, deepest respect , awe , presence of mind , dignity & confident wisdom, exhiliration ....plus above all good manners and tolerance to repay this greatest of all gifts we call Life ? To use much of the time for deeper reflection and growth as the philosphers advised and not be undone by unavoidable events part of the nature of the world yet unchanged ?
So many things are relative or so it seems at first glancing ...the happiness and contentment that is found by missionaries when they go to preach and minister to the nomads of southern Sudan which are only small family units wandering from shade tree to shade tree surving on roots ,lizards and insects . How could these people still be happy & know contentment being almost the poorest humans in existence ? It was something that just baffled the missionary to see and cause for some more review & reflection . They have no painkillers or dentists .... no hospitals to go to in the case of injury , no possessions or home that we imagine for ourselves . Yet they marvel at being alive such as they are , and do love each other .
So when does it end ? Now that we know those poorest of human innocents living on the edge of nothing are being hunted down and massacred by armed bands of the "faithful".? |
