Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Sunday, September 8, 2013
"Not all, not every, but nevertheless"
"Not all, not every, but nevertheless"
Not all things are the same thing. Not everything is everything.
All things and everything are unique and distinct things, individually and aggregately. All things and everything are continuously changing in motion in form and in substance.
Even you and I.
Yet, our emergence onto this plane of being is most highly significant, as neither all things, nor everything, either successfully or completely, emerge hereon.
Yet, all things do return to their pre-emergent state of non-being, sooner or later. Where or what this state is, or if it is, is the enduring subject of theological wonder, of philosophical speculation, of scientific inquiry, of religious belief and of dogged denial and doubt. Yet, here we are together.
Not all, not every, but nevertheless.