It’s horrific to see one’s world come to an end. Just facing the possibility of that event is frightening.
Many people have been experiencing the end of their world already as humanity discovers more about the universe, human makeup, and events of history including the writing of scripture. Ancient ideas such as virgin birth, bodily resurrection, male dominance, heaven and hell, authoritarianism, scriptural inerrancy and church tradition once had a purpose noble or not, but not so much now. Supposedly, the human race is becoming more intelligent, but now there seems to be a backlash.
Wealth and its power over what once were democratic processes is on the rise. It’s in the interests of these forces to return things to a previous state. So our nation walks back to hostility toward science, diversity and civil liberties. Those of us who strove for a new world now face the end of it and it becomes our turn to experience the same gut-wrenching fear.
It’s in times like these that I’m so glad I no longer see God as some personality we can understand, and manipulate. God is not some separate being out there in another world who intervenes at my humble request. Instead, God is everything, including our social order. So when everything becomes incomprehensible to me and I just want to die, the one thing I can trust is the presence of God, and that is the presence of love. Repeat: That’s all I need. That’s all I need. That’s all I need…
Whether I am the type to rush into a new world or whether I’m the type to cling to the old, all I need is love. And when I let myself see that love I can live it, and it spreads. It’s God’s kind of pyramid scheme.
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