I love gadgets, technology stuff. But, it doesn’t have to be really complex. Take a watch for example, the spring, hands, winder. Oh, yeah I am talking about the old type watches. I am fascinated by how it was even thought of and how all of that works. I am also fascinated by the tuning forks, the atomic clock signaled ones and the perpetual motion watches. I am a humble social worker and mystic, I just cannot fathom what it took to figure these things out.
Here is what I do understand, every single one of those things I noted above are slowly but surely running down. A fancy name for this is entropy. Things just become less energetic and organized. It might take awhile but they will run down. Here is the connection, we were given this view of the universe and history and the creation we live in. Church has taught that history is winding down to a powerful ending. Our very philosophy, since Descarte, has taught us that the world and history is running down.
In reading Richard Rohr, I had an epiphany. And yes, that was just yesterday. Here it is, we don’t have to accept that definition of our world. God is not a celestial clockmaker. He did not set the world into motion and then back off. That is not what a loving God does. History is moving toward more love, it is a positive and wonderful creation. God is bringing all things together in love and we must stop being negative and depressed in our view of our world and our God.
Our universe, our personal universe is expanding and growing. It is gaining momentum toward love and it is continuously growing toward redemption. We are taught in church that God is vindictive, demands retribution and was angry with us until Jesus died. Really? Why would we believe that about a loving God? God has loved us from the first moment of creation. He has been there with us all along. How many times did he, in the creation story, say this is good? It is still good and he still loves his creation. He still loves us. We are redeemed when we realize that.
TMM