A Peculiar Energy

I feel it.  I have rarely felt it before, at least at this intensity.  If I am a writer, I should be able to describe it so that you can relate to the experience.

My morning coffee could have something to do with it, but it is certainly not a major factor.  Being in love seems to be a pretty major part; but of course, when you're in love you don't really know anything for sure.  My mind wants to use it for good, but my heart doesn't care about that so much as it does about using it at all, come what may.

Funny thing about energy: it is part of the whole universe and beyond, and yet it can affect a mere cell within that universe.  It even seems to affect every cell in my body, the cells within a cell.  Reminds me of Walt Whitman, which, actually, in my case, is not a good thing.

And I have heard that energy, by its nature, never ends, but only moves from one place to another.  If so, then I suppose the production of this piece of writing is such a process, and you are receiving energy from me.  Wow, huh?

And from where did I receive it?  Other writers?  All contact with humans?  Also contact with God and nature?  The energy from food, etc. going to my brain, which was involved in this process as well?  To every question above, I think "yes."

Now here's where it gets deep: as this -- let's say "energy transfer" -- takes place within a time-space continuum, is there a particularity, a singularity, a uniqueness, a peculiarity to it? Surely this exact thing has never, ever, since eternity past, happened before, nor will it again.  At least, in my mind that is the case.  We know so little.

Regarding all the above, I say that whatever energy is, it is a small part of God, His creation, or both.  I think He is into uniqueness.  I think He blesses what we do, whenever we will simply allow that with our free will.

So I think that my writing this, and your reading it, is a peculiar transfer of a peculiar energy, and this is no less than a miracle.

Follow?

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So It Is

A friend quoted this today:

To please God…to be a real ingredient in the divine happiness…to be loved by God, not merely pitied, but delighted in as an artist delights in his work or a father in a son—it seems impossible, a weight or burden of glory which our thoughts can hardly sustain. But so it is. ~ c.s. lewis

My reactive thoughts begin with the scriptural statement that Christ is the part of the Godhead through which all was created.  We also read that The Father is The Creator.  I wonder if The Father, in some sense, self-created or "self-actualized" when His nature was, or is, expressed in Christ.  Certainly we would not presume that God is a mere organism such that we are, or that the term used to describe a human process would fully encompass this notion.  But there is, both expressly in scripture and implicit in Lewis' statement, an idea that "God The Son" (eternal), who is "The Son of God" (as He was on Earth) is a source of great pleasure and happiness for The Father, and that this delight has something to do with us -- at least, the "us" that can be said to be "in Christ."  Modern Christian theology seems usually to include a belief that fallen man can only be ultimately pleasing to and accepted by God inasmuch as he is "redeemed" by this being "in Christ."

Further, a scripture argument can be made for the notion that the Earthly Christ went through a rather natural growth process during His early life:

And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man. Luke 2:51-52 (NIV)

and this could easily be thought of as a process of self-actualization.

Now, I don't know about you, but this drive for self-actualization has been prominent in my life, at least from a negative point of view.  What I mean is that, personally, I have keenly felt a lack of reaching much of my potential.  Psychology has offered me little to help with this, but belief in Christ (not as the man-made religion, but as a personal relationship with a currently-existing spiritual person) has offered much.  Self-actualization as a human endeavor seems to me to be, at best, a striving for and some degree of attainment of a "better" self.  I suppose that, today, I can honestly claim some of that.

But then, in comes this statement of Lewis', as do so many of his, to completely blow out of the water any such humanistic ideas.  To personally be a delight to the only sovereign and unique Creator of all things?  As a work of art of His, or a son of His?  No wonder Lewis' contemplation of this thought resulted in words that, even for him, were extreme: seemingly impossible, even a "weight or burden of glory."

But I must agree with all the above.  Christ was and is eternal; was actualized as an Earthly human; fully so as The Son of God; and He invites mankind to be "in Him."

For those less familiar with Christian thought, these statements are part of what was called "the gospel" by the early Greek Christians.  That word simply means "good news."

So it is.

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