The quest of the human heart for
meaning
is the heartbeat of every religion.
Brother David Steindl-Rast
Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer
This is a wonderful thing to think about today. I hope
you have time to .. or make time, to
do so. Of course, I speak from the luxury of being “retired” … though my days
are full and I too have to make time
for the things that are important. “Making Time” is a given of Life, I think;
“having time” is a fantasy.
For me, through my experience and study, the “human heart”
… which includes all the human faculties … is the instrument by which the
Mystery we call “God” is revealed. Maybe even created. I like to think,
theologically, that “God” is “created” through every moment in which the human
heart reaches out for Meaning. In one sense, one of God’s “titles” could be
“Meaning” … and I think we come close to that when God says to Moses, “I AM”.
Does it disturb you to think that we create God? I don’t
think it should. I think that there is
no God without the maturing of each human person in the understanding that, as
the early Church Fathers/Mothers … and indeed the Wise of every wise
religious/philosophical path say … we come to understand that we are an Incarnation of God … just as Jesus and Zeus and Apollo and the
Buddha and Shiva and all the gods/goddesses humankind have ever conceived are.
Theologically, however, humans can’t
be Gods/Goddesses. We are mortal … they are Divine Myths. But there is a magic
moment in which the two become One in some essential way.
Every single God/Goddess we humans have ever created is a
manifestation of Ourself … or, of who we think or hope or want our Self to Be.
Jesus says to His disciples: “You did not choose Me; I
chose You!” How do I interpret that? In this way: that this is a description of that superb moment when, in
our search for meaning, we know in the heart that we are an Incarnation of our
search for Meaning.
Brian+
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