Some say our nation has become Godless.
I want to know how anyone, most especially a
Believer, can make any such assertion.
It’s the equivalent of an atheist scientist saying
that energy does not exist.
No, you say, that’s not true, it’s nothing at all
like what we’re trying to say.
How is it not the same?
In order for a Believer to make such a statement,
said Believer is negating the most elementary fundamental core of their Faith.
There is not one – not one – particle of our world that is Godless.
There is not one – not one – particle of our world that is not energy.
Denying God does not make God less real.
Denying energy does not make energy less real.
What has no beginning and no end, can be neither
created nor destroyed, is the Alpha and the Omega, is omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent
… ?
Some will answer ‘God’.
Some will answer ‘energy’.
Guess what.
Both are right.
So tell me what is the difference.
God is everywhere, in all things, at all times,
knows all, guides all, rules all.
So is/does energy.
As our sciences figure things out, the
interconnectedness of all things comes closer and closer to being proven with
cold hard facts, people. Every new discovery carries us another step along the
path of knowledge, and they’re all leading toward something that many (perhaps
all, deep down) already know intuitively.
As the world in which we live in becomes more
defined, more understood, that there is a method to its madness seems to become
ever more clear.
Maybe it is true after all that things don’t ‘just
happen’ at random.
Maybe there really is a guiding force at work, an underlying
Law which we cannot alter, to which we are immutably bound body, mind, and
spirit.
Whatever we choose to call it, be it God or PHI, it’s
one and the same – and has been around for much longer than mankind has been
around to label it, and will be around for much longer than we, as individuals and
as a species, will be.
For Believers, the above statement is
acknowledgement of God the Creator, Ruler of Heaven and Earth, validates the
Power of Prayer, and holds the promise of life eternal. God is All. All is God.
God set everything in motion and will continue to control its direction.
For others, it represents the constant movement of
energy, the changing from one form to another of said energy in terms of its
presence, usage, release, dispersal, storage, reformation, and re-use in yet
another form, be it body, mind, or spirit. PHI is All. All is energy, PHI, the
motion of all things and the Law by which all things abide.
Again, tell me the difference.
We are all on the same page here, whether we
acknowledge it or not. Our labels are just different.
Me, I prefer to believe in God but have no reason to
quarrel with those who might refer to His works by whatever label they choose.
Likewise, those who do not believe in God are in no
way a threat to Him nor to those of us who do believe. That they can see and
appreciate the intricacies of our world; that they actively seek and find the
balance in all of it as they make their advances is to our benefit as well as
to theirs.
It is truly a wonderment to me to realize that I am
a part of such an amazing world, that the energy that is me belongs to that world and always will in one way or another,
that it always has.
Sometimes I can’t help but feel oh so small and
insignificant, and I am right to feel that way. Like a single atom of a cell of
a single strand of my hair – so infinitely small that I myself am unaware of
that individual atom – yet in a sense I am aware because it is a part of me – just so, even more so, am I that
atom in the immensity of our world. I can no more change the Will of God than a
single atom of my body can change the course of my individual life; I can no
more affect the unfolding of the Universe than I can control the behaviors of
even one other soul on the face of our planet. I have only my own small life to
live as I choose to live it, as best I can, for good or for ill. My choices
contribute to the balance of the whole in only a very small way, too small for
me to understand. Yet my choices are all I have.
Likewise, mankind cannot change the course of PHI,
of the energy which is our world. It is inexorable. It cannot be altered in its
course, certainly not by us. We as a species have only our own small life to
live as we choose to live it, as best we can, for good or for ill. Our choices
contribute to the balance of the whole in only a very small way, too small for
us to understand. Yet our choices are all we have.
For good or for ill, I am all I have. For good or
for ill, we are all we have.
If we are so small, so insignificant, what then is
our purpose?
I don’t know.
None of us knows.
Yet that there is a reason for all things we know,
each and all of us, in the hearts and the souls of us.
As we discover more and more about the
interconnectedness of the world in which we live in, maybe we’ll come to
understand the importance of our individual and united contributions to that
connection. Perhaps we are more vital than we imagine to the keeping of the
overall balance, for good or for ill.
Just in case, might it not behoove us to use our
energies in support of the good, and harm none?
Remember how I likened myself to a single atom of a
single cell of my own body? Think what happens when an infection sets in; perhaps
beginning with one cell that infection can and will spread harm throughout the
body.
Still, every particle is a part of All, for good or
for ill. The energy may seem to morph itself into something harmful for a time;
yet that same energy may at another time be part of a powerful good. Is that
not largely how the saints of Christendom have come about?
Me, I don’t believe in saints. I believe in the good
and the ill in people, and the balance that must be kept one way or another in
the bigger picture.
And I believe that God, the Holy Trinity, is the Who
part of the age-old quest to identify Who What When Where How and Why of every
last thing mankind has ever encountered or will ever encounter.
For that matter, God is all of the other parts, too.
You see, science will more easily come to terms with
the What When Where and How than it will comprehend the importance of Who and
Why, although those are indeed the most important of the whole.
Getting back around to my original point here, there
is no such thing as any part of our world being ‘Godless’.
We can say whatever we want; it’s our right. We cannot,
however, expel God from any part of His Creation.
Not one particle of our world – not one – is without God. God Is. God is the life force of all,
past, present, future. God is the energy stored in inert masses to be spent
when its time comes. God is All of All.
Call it God’s Will or call it Fate or call it PHI –
labels are utterly meaningless and so are disputes about them.
How can people not GET that?
