A Thing

So here's a thing..

I am amazed at the in-everything-ness of God.  He is in it all and He defies all our instincts about a deity.  His ways are the inverse of our intuition (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RiboB3dlIQ). 

Maybe that's what we were meant to do.  The universe follows causality.  One thing happens, it causes something else.  Everything's the result of something(s) else.  The outcome?  Big and strong things persist, weak and small things decrease.  Our universe, evolution, nature, they all inevitably, necessarily exaggerate imbalance.  It has to be that way.  Entropy brings order but pulls us to the cold grey.  The non-linearity brings about stuff.  But how to go further?  How to take the cosmos higher?  How to make beauty and diversity not only physical but spiritual?  A leopard is beautiful, but violent.  Biology facilitates life, but generates pathogens, parasites and predators. 

Then God said, “Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us. They will reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the livestock, all the wild animals on the earth, and the small animals that scurry along the ground.”

How do you break the cycle?  What on Earth (or around it, or mind-blowingly distant from it) can subvert this convention?  Could there be some kind of creative leveler, some absurd, abundant, illogical return loop that could take things further forward?  Maybe life isn't the summit of creation. 

When God's living image enters the scene, things can be different.  Love is the active agent.  It causes the big and strong to nurture the weak and small.  It drives us to care.  To medicate, domesticate.  Us humans have an amazing capacity for technology and love, the creative flame.  We could take it forward, or we could reassert the old way.  Or worse.  We can use our authority for anarchy, destroy order and promote chaos.  Sometimes it seems that's what we've chosen; to decay.

We are shocked by our inhumanity.  But maybe we should be more inspired by our likeness.  What is more surprising?  That hurt and pain, exploitation and humiliation are given voice in the song of humanity?  (After all, this is the resident condition.)  Or that, despite the pain (there's so much pain in this world and this People), despite that, sacrifice and generosity and healing and forgiveness and hope and trust and goodness and love are?  Surely that is miraculous, it is certainly improbable, seemingly impossible.  Humanity is miraculous.  The occupying empire, the base state, the cosmological operating system may be flawed, but we are intrinsically, fundamentally, essentially made like Him.

In the beginning, He gave us work to do.  In the present, He works in us and out of us.  We are made in His likeness, reformed by Him Like Us, and revived with Him in us..

So let's get creative.