I had a professor once say that when we talk about our life story and the omniscience and omnipresence of God there is a beautiful analogy that we can share to illustrate the role of agency in that plan. He said that God is present with the book of our life and at times we ask Him for guidance to know what to do and He turns the book around for us to get a glimpse of what has happened, is happening, or will happen and to our credit and to our surprise what we see are pages written in our handwriting. God has given us the tools to succeed in life and sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to be our exemplar but in the end the consequences we encounter are based on the choices we personally make in the situations we find or place ourselves in. Is God still a player in this game? Of course He is. He prompts and instructs and protects as any father would, but in the end He still wants us to choose Him. He wants us to choose to be like Him and to want to live with Him. We are heirs with Christ so being such, it is not just a possibility but expected that we will eventually become like Him. Good thing that change is a process because I am still not close to being taken up quite yet.
Still I find it fascinating to see the world in all of its imperfection and yet sit back and see the perfection unfold. It is seen in the imperfect people all around us, a world of chaos held in balance and order, and life that continually presses forward as steadily as a clock. We live, we age, and we die. It is all the little things in the middle that give life its beauty and the relationships we form give life its meaning. I love to slow things down for a few minutes and just watch to see how the world turns around me. It gives a feeling of empowerment to watch people as a bystander make decisions, weigh options, judge and become impassioned by their feelings. It is literally awesome to watch as any one person can change the whole atmosphere of room through their arrival and their presence. It makes me smile when I see a young man enter into a room and quietly notice a girl whom he is attracted to and then make his way across to sit next to her. I continue to watch happily as he continues to take sideways looks that he hopes to go unnoticed as she goes about her activities and eventually leaves. I practically tally those looks in my mind and naturally the more tallies I mentally make the bigger my smile becomes. People are just interesting.
Art is emotion in motion with a spark of creativity and imagination.
One of the most beautiful things I see in the human form is emotion. It is the music to the soul. It is the rhythm for life. It is something unique about our place in the world as well as the way we perceive the world. A long-standing memory is often linked to a highly emotional event in our lives: birth, death, pain, pleasure, peace, or the feelings of failure or success. But within each of us is also a desire to belong, be understood, and to feel loved and to love. The elegant complexity of the human form is complemented by the simplicity of the common factors within each and every personality. Like one well-oiled and highly manufactured machine, we all move among each other like a series of well-designed cogs and gears pushed along by the belt of time.
I recently saw this guy in concert and it was AMAZING... Tyrone Wells.
I don't know how many times i have heard myself or my friends say that we have poor timing. It is a hard balance trying to see how long we should wait before we act. Sometimes immediate action is crucial and at other times it is best to just stay still and see how things unfold. It is so hard to know which is needed. I really don't need to spell out this one but again I could end this thought with interesting people. I don't even think we always know why we do things we do and when. But again, I think life is a masterpiece where we have to learn from the shadows to appreciate the light, find purpose in the casual things and natural progression of each and every day, but most importantly live a life worth remembering because when we are old and grey I don't know how much more can we count on than our memories. Our choices help to define us and it really is quite amazing what people decide to do... Interesting people.
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