Everything evolves. It is sad that the word has become something bad. Hundreds of years ago, the Western world became rational, developing what is called a “dual mind” where everything fits in a good and evil, or yes and no category. The modern Christian church has labeled evolution as ungodly and some have gone so far as to explain that the world is a mere six thousand or so years old and that dinosaurs were on the Ark.
Now, think of this clearly………all of creation has been static and unchanging for the last six thousand years! Does that fit your life experience? Are you the same now as you were at age 8? Of course not, we are ever evolving, ever changing to become more or better. Even scripture says to ‘work out your own salvation”. This is very hard to do if everything in your world is black and white, yes and no.
I think this happened because we have lost the mystery of life, of faith, and of ourselves. We have to have an answer and we become frightened when all we can say is “I don’t know”. Why do we have to know? Our ancestors saw the world as either or both. They saw spirit and flesh as one. How can we say we follow Christ if we do not have the same viewpoint? Do we not follow a Savior, a God that came to put us back together? To show us that spirit and body are one thing, one glorious creation?
Throughout the Christian scriptures, the picture is of the Creator putting the world back in order. Jesus was not Plan B. He was and is always plan A. Scripture clearly teaches that. And he came to embody the living God in human form. Perhaps instead of using an ancient Greek philosophy to deny that we are really human, we should embrace our humanity and our good Earth, our good creation.
If we do not evolve, we are dead already. If your faith is not growing, if your relationship to a very personal Creator is not evolving into the beautiful think it should be/can be, then what is the point? We are called to be more than we think we can be. Don’t fight it, let go and grow. Live life with mystery and curiosity. Never, ever be afraid to consider not having all of the answers.
I do not want to have an answer for everything. I want to keep the mystery in the sunrise. I want to marvel at our beautiful world and weep with Mother Earth when we damage her and/or her children. I never want to explain the mystery, I just want to marvel at it and revel in it. Come on, quit stalling and evolve!
TMM