Recently I came to the rerealization that we humans are imperfect. Not only are we not perfect, we were designed in the image of our Maker, and the thought of this really didn't set well with me when I look around me and I see so much dissection built into the very core of our DNA, and RNA, and every other XNA. This provided a moment of serendipity to ask the larger, if not the more important question "Why would our Divine Maker design us as we are in the first place, if when He gets upset and is at His limit with us, He destroys us." "It's His own damn fault that He designed us in the first place!" I said to Him.
Then a Holy serendipitous something occurred to me... When life seems bleak, pointless, barren of all hope and positivity, and darkness descending all around us--This is the perfect moment and location for conception of a Divine miracle, created by a human being, who was truly designed in the Divine Maker's Holy Image... A simple speck of hope is all it takes... How cool is that?!
Agape'
Thursday, October 22, 2009
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Interesting thought. I feel like I've come to an enjoyment, over the course of my inner development, of all the wonderment we have in all of it. Speaking of which, I'm looking at that sentence I just wrote and wonder if that would make sense in any other context. I wonder all the same. It seems natural to have continual questions about that part of us that our human side doesn't recall, the part of us that was only in Spirit before it took on the form of this body. To use human concepts of the physical world (i.e. DNA, RNA et cetera) to pose these questions simply adds to the confusion - that concept that limits our human brains from grasping.
The great Danish Theologian Soren Kirkagard (*please check the spelling) said, "When you label me, you negate me." When we ask questions about the Divine Maker with words such as 'why,' 'how,' 'what,' we negate It/Him/Her (it doesn't matter what you call it - God, Allah, Shiva, Zeus, Spirit, Dave...), as divinity is simply that. Divinity. It doesn't have to think, it doesn't have to know, consider, pick sides, become emotional or anything other than be. It simply is.
When we find ourselves in "darker" times than normal, times other-than-comfortable, it may be a simple lesson. Merely a lesson that the Spirit within us (and all around) provides to teach us, or help us remember our true self - that self that is the Divine, for the energy of all is in us as well, and there truly are no separate things. What we do with the lesson is what determines how often we find ourselves in the classroom. But in class or at recess, what a wonderful world all the same.
namaste
Point of Light,
Per your request, I am publishing my response to your "Delivering Perfection" entry. As I publish my earlier private thoughts to you, I find it interesting that it coincided with Namaste's response as well (i.e. timing, main references). Namaste and I are fortunate to know you, one that can inspire philosophical and deeper levels of thought within us. This being in line with the original intent of your blog page, to share and bring each other closer to our path Home. I personally need more work on the "sharing" aspect.
My initial, reactive thoughts to your “Delivering Perfection” entry:
Given the premise that we are indeed created by God in His likeness and image, my thoughts take this direction:
God is supposed “perfection” as are we when we are born (i.e. our initial, “perfect” manifestation and introduction into the earthly world in our physical embodiment at birth). With each passing day, month, and year, as our free will
develops, grows more sophisticated, and is executed, we become less and less perfect, being measured against whatever perfection is defined by God (and by our limited human understanding). I can’t comprehend with my human mind what God’s perfection truly is. I’m assuming that God experiences disappointments, that must span a huge gamut, with his many creations (us), however, it is not He that destroys us, but our own imperfections interrelating with each others’ imperfections. I believe this is part of His plan, though. And it is through personal moments of serendipity (and epiphanies), as the one you expressed in your entry, that we see a glimpse of our imperfections long enough to make an impression and precipitate us to question their source, nature, and our responsibilities to them (and others’). I contend this is God’s way of designing a “lesson plan” for our journey of learning towards Him. It would seem that our earthly experience would be less enlightening or even void of enlightenment should we all be and remain “perfect” while living it. As you and I previously discussed, we were meant to be imperfect, whatever that concept may or may not be.
Your mention of Agape reminded me of something once studied but forgotten from a course I took on world religions and philosophies. The supposed antithesis of Agape, which has been labeled as Eros, innately and humanly creates and fosters those imperfections in us and others. If I recall, Eros was self-love, selfishness, want, inferior, and the corruptive nature of man. If Eros truly exists as it has been deemed, then it would appear to be the responsible culprit for what destroys us, implicating free will. Who knows, as I’m not always a proponent of placing things in a neatly placed, black or white type of dichotomy.
This is one of those topics where the more time and reflection you dedicate toward it, the deeper and more complex you travel with it. I do agree with you that we each DO have the ability, through Divine love and as His tool, to create a miracle for another. To create hope for someone else… yes, that truly IS cool.
Noteworthy are the similar references Namaste and I both made in response: "questioning" of our human side, our "physical embodiment," "labeling" (Eros dichotomy, negation), "lesson" in classroom of life. ~~Good topic that spurred productive thought, Point of Light~~
JustMe97
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