People love a mystery. People also love a certainty. People love to create and invent and yet people hate change.
Humanity's rather a tangled mess, when it comes down to it - all I can conclude is that we either are made of, or most deeply love, internal contradictions.
Take our sense of God. Uncreated Creator, the prime mover, is where we start by declaring that God just started, just was. So then we have God affecting time from some non-time existence, creating space from some non-place space. And frankly, I'm good with all that.
So many draw the line when it comes to a Changer. They want an Unchanging Changer, and it doesn't really matter how many places we can point to in the Hebrew Scriptures that come right out and say God changed God's mind. Or Lot did. Or Moses did. Or Nineveh's repentance did.
The only convincingly changeless part of God is the Law of Love, the Divine Dance within God - and extended to between God and us, God's creation, all along. Even when we make up stories about being cast out because we think God *should* have done that, we see those same stories showing God protecting, providing, conversing with the outcasts, from Cain on down.
I am most content to serve a God who changes their mind. It's ok that I don't understand. I don't understand how the simplest creature in creation is created. Can't explain the inner workings of a tapeworm or a tardigrade or, heck, myself. So I'll trust the Unknowable Knower to know what's best. In whatever time God chooses.
There's a chant I learned from pagan friends and adore:
"She changes everything she touches, and everything she changes she touches." I am most grateful to be touched, and changed, and know that my God is also touched, and changed, by us.
— FriarMir
Humanity's rather a tangled mess, when it comes down to it - all I can conclude is that we either are made of, or most deeply love, internal contradictions.
Take our sense of God. Uncreated Creator, the prime mover, is where we start by declaring that God just started, just was. So then we have God affecting time from some non-time existence, creating space from some non-place space. And frankly, I'm good with all that.
So many draw the line when it comes to a Changer. They want an Unchanging Changer, and it doesn't really matter how many places we can point to in the Hebrew Scriptures that come right out and say God changed God's mind. Or Lot did. Or Moses did. Or Nineveh's repentance did.
The only convincingly changeless part of God is the Law of Love, the Divine Dance within God - and extended to between God and us, God's creation, all along. Even when we make up stories about being cast out because we think God *should* have done that, we see those same stories showing God protecting, providing, conversing with the outcasts, from Cain on down.
I am most content to serve a God who changes their mind. It's ok that I don't understand. I don't understand how the simplest creature in creation is created. Can't explain the inner workings of a tapeworm or a tardigrade or, heck, myself. So I'll trust the Unknowable Knower to know what's best. In whatever time God chooses.
There's a chant I learned from pagan friends and adore:
"She changes everything she touches, and everything she changes she touches." I am most grateful to be touched, and changed, and know that my God is also touched, and changed, by us.
— FriarMir
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