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.
Wednesday, July 15, 2015
GRANDER GENEALOGY
THOUGHT EXPERIMENT INVOLVING OUR GRANDER GENEALOGY
Our human births, our earthly irruptions , in this space and time are not random, are not accidental, nor whimsical; but each is purposeful and particular.
We are, and were, and ever shall be, called forth by God. So too is, or was, all else called forth into their season, their moment, their instant manifestation, to do each especially assigned duty and die. Seamlessly wed yet seemingly different.
Our recognition of our singular uniqueness, and of our particular peculiarity is central to our being. Likewise, our oneness is wondrously reinforced in our lives.
Our devolution from the Divine defines us, and binds us to a destiny beyond our ken or kin. A grander genealogy is ours than is known, conceived, or that is even accessible by any present means but thought. Even our thought has a governor.
We ense. We grasp. We peer through "the glass darkly," inscrutability, hopefully by faith. We search for answers to the awesomeness of us, our existence, ideas. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+13%3A12&version=KJV
We aspire. We desire., inspire, respire, attempting to acquire more perfect knowledge of ourselves to all else that is or was or may ever be and the Divine.
Yet, even if or when we attain the speed of light, and we have traveled for billions of light- years in myriad directions, in quest of the Divine Source, we shall be no closer to Its quintessence than we are now laved in its infinite love and light.
For as each raindrop is known by its name, as each blade of grass or grain of sand has the same family tree as we. Comets and galaxies are near kindred too in our grander genealogy, loving me, and loving you, in and out and passing through.
Amen.