CHILD IN THE WIND

CHILD IN THE WIND The solar system obeys laws. So does integumentary within it: sun, planets, moons, gas , dusts, vapor. None of these exercises discretion. None of these has free will to itself. But some men who are, materially, among the very least these, are of the "belief" that they enjoys "free will" unlike the greatest of these: the solar system . We are who we are, because we are what we are, by nature, intrinsically, like them. Because human belief, like the wind, blows wherever it pleases, John 3:8, man's freedom to say that he believes in this or that, or disbelieves this or that, is also part of its intrinsic wind blown nature. I am a child in the wind like you, and it pleases me to muse, think, meditate, of these things of God. These thoughts have recurred to me from my reading of John Milton's classic, PARADISE LOST (1667), wherein he writes: book 5: "Evil into the mind of God and Man May come and go, so unreproved, and leave no spot or blame behind: Which gives me hope That what in sleep thou didst abhor to dream, Waking thou never will consent to do." And more pointedly Milton writes: "Happiness in his power left free to will, Left to his own free will, his will though free, Yet mutable; whence warn him to beware that he swerve not, too secure: Tell him withal his danger, and from whom; what enemy, Late fallen himself from Heaven, is plotting now The fall of others from like state of bliss; By violence? no, for that shall be withstood; But by deceit and lies: This let him know, Lest, willfully transgressing, he pretend Surprisal, unadmonished, unforewarned. So spake the Eternal Father , and fulfilled All justice..." P. 50, 53