Dear All of Us,
Who was the
ancient sage
that opined:
"Never change your socks
and you'll never get invited
to dinner parties"
(Please don't bother
trying to fact check
that one!)
Well, more than
our social life
requires change.
All life requires change.
Just ask a new born baby
- womb to world
- diapers
- sleeping patterns
- rapid growth
- effect on parents
and those are just for starters.
(Source: Ollie the Younger)
As a matter of how it is,
Existence is so dynamic that
all is in constant change.
Put another way,
God Is All That Is
Totality
Is-ness
Existence
Infinite Energy
The Creative Dynamic
Of Being.
There's just too much energy
to sit out the dance.
Creation is way more than a
Big Bang
It's an unfathomable,
ever expanding burst of
Energy
Existence
The Love that is God.
Creation is a wonderful party
in constant change
and expansion.
No chance to get stop-stuck
or bored for those all in on it.
It takes more forms and ways
than we so far know how to notice.
It ranges from:
- sub-atomic particles,
and probably an infinity of
sub-sub-sub atomic particles
and pulsations of energy
all the way out to probably
an infinity of
gases and galaxies
ever changing,
with some of those
vibration of energy
slowing to matter
(Teilhard De Chardin)
and that in
all states of density,
with some changing from
moment to moment,
with others changing over
multiples of millennia.
- societal and personal changes
as consciousness
changes and evolves
(see self and society
from long ago to now)
- the very cells of our bodies
cascading in change
- our spiritual experience
changing from ritual and piety
to mystical merger.
Some say God is more
a verb than a noun.
Our life in God sure is.
Our sense of God,
of life, creation,
meaning, and of self,
are like a symphony
ever changing
in tone, tempo,
pitch, rhythm,
harmonies,
contrasts,
movements.
Change is its get go.
Put variously,
our life in God
has more than
four seasons.
It can paradoxically
be a puzzling mix,
a fearsome frigidity and
a basking warmth
all at once.
It has intensities
of awareness
and intimacy.
There is a change flow to it -
variation forward.
There's
-tribulation and ecstasy,
-clarity and unknowing,
yet a cloud of unknowing
that is just fine, thank you,
because its profound intimacy
out strips all and any
rational take,
with innumerable
motions and moments
in-between and beyond.
After a lot of all that change,
many mature to
change ready
and just let God
lead the dance.
In my life there have been
many seasons
of spiritual change.
There's been seasons of
ecstasy and joy.
It's like living
in a land of bliss.
In my life there have been
seasons of aridity
and barrenness.
It's like living
in an endless desert
of nothingness nowhere.
In our spiritual lives
nothing is still and set.
Faith is a grace gift
that keeps us
in the saddle
no matter the motion
of the moment and
the changes consequent.
Those changes
are not necessarily from
lower to higher,
from hard to easy,
from minimal to maximal.
There is much mix.
Some are understood.
Some are a big blank.
Those changes are like
steps in a dance.
Some of them are
routine and familiar.
Some are surprises
that require us
to change fast,
to be spiritually
fleet of foot
with the unfamiliar.
And the dance
of change
spirals onward.
Our spiritual life
can get
all mixed up,
become chaotic,
if we deem it ours
to determine
the pace and substance
of it and of its changes.
In reality it's ours to accept
and ours to grow
in the dynamic of
Existence
as it presents
in its ever and
progressive changes.
To resist change,
to want to stay put
as is in
"Give Me That
Old Time Religion",
frustrates growth,
denies God's evolution
in us and all creating,
stagnates soul.
Such resistance
is itself a change,
a change for the worse.
To embrace change
as it comes in God's
ongoing expansion of all
is a change not only
for the better, but for
Beatitude.
In God our changes mean
the party never ends,
just gets ever better.
See you a few changes from now,
John Frank
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PONDERINGS
- "The only constant
in life is change."
Heraclitus
- "When you are
finished changing,
you are finished."
Benjamin Franklin
- "Heraclitus, I believe,
says that all things pass
and nothing stays,
and comparing things
to the flow of a river,
he says, you could not
step twice into
the same river."
Plato
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A HI FIVE
to our visitors this week from Cyprus.
"The Times They Are A-changing"
and all creation is in that time zone.
Have a great week.
Looking forward to our next connect.
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