The Journey Just Beginning

Wow! October 11 was my last blog??? That's just about half a year ago. Wha...?

Okay. So in this half-year we've been on a journey and suddenly I don't know what to say about it...

So instead I'll think about Gravity.

We all know what it is, right? I mean, gravity is the force that makes things fall down. Only, the physics people tell me we don't really know what "down" means, and the idea of force, well, that's sort of about "pushing" not "pulling". So we don't have to ask "why do things fall down?". Instead we can say "Who's pushing?"

Then I start thinking about Algebra, and how if you say something on one side of the equals sign, you can say it again on the other side, only you don't need to say it exactly the same way. In fact, you can start inventing new ways to say it without every apologizing, as long as you can show how you did it.In the language of Algebra we can certainly say that gravity "pulls toward". We can also say that gravity "pushes from" or "makes to move" or "dances on the head of a pin..." All things are equivalent, if you find the right relationships.


It isn't that some people believe God exists and some don't. We just sit on opposite sides of the equation. Some people like to say (and it's really a popular idea these days) that the universe is an empty place, that we are the only people, and that we'll be searching a long, long, time before we find real neighbors.

That's just one side of the calculation. Gravity pulling. But what if the other side is also true, that the universe is jam-packed filled to capacity bursting at the seams with life, only we just haven't found a name for it yet? Sort of like before we had a name for gravity. We saw it happening, all around us every day. Rocks fell down from mountains, bricks fell down from walls, big trees fell down in windstorms. Nothing new. We didn't have a name for it because nobody ever really thought about WHY it happened. Once we started thinking about it, we needed a name. But that didn't mean we understood it.

Right now, our relationship with God is very much like our relationship with gravity. We have a name, but not an understanding.

I just wanted to point that out, because I happen to think instead of being very empty, lonely and maybe scary, the "world is charged" with the energy--the life--of God. Like a great, big, Never-Charge battery. Full of power, full of life, ready to ignite like a beacon in the great sea of the universe.

Oh, and all this means that it doesn't change things if you believe or don't believe. Do the math. You'll see what I mean... :)