In the Loom

There are many things that are simply too great for humans to understand. However great our knowledge may increase, our understanding (if we are being honest) is drastically limited. We can say what, we can not with certainty say why.

So we push. And the more great minds push they can end up in the mind-blown state, unable or unwiling to share what they had seen. What they have seen is so great it quite literally blows the mind and leaves the person unable to communicate.

Human progress is NOT a straight line. There is not an easy way to get beyond limits. Many of our greatest leaders have said the same. We try. We take chances and do some things.  But in the end we can not see the big picture of the whole thing.

And perhaps that’s the point. We can not see it all. We can not see much beyond our own noses.  Perhaps that’s the impetus for our search for God in the first place. If we can not see, maybe some One can. We long for that One who can see it all.

We want a connecting force to the universe. We want to know we are all bound by some universal purposes. Something binds us altogether. Isn’t that the whole point after all?  Otherwise we are left on the outside - on our own, to our own devices, alone.

Ships in the night. We would be truly isolated. On our own to create some meaning, some private existence that made sense independent of everyone, and everything, else.  It doesn’t make sense. We know there is more. We can feel it.

Something in our hearts tells us there is more. Art and music remind us there is more.  The deep ache in profound experiences of life sound the alarm within us, again and again. We are not alone. We are part of something much bigger.

There is a storyline going on here above and beyond our lives.

Of course there are other ways to see this desire for connection but they don’t pan out. They lead to a lethargic sort of independence. Outside a connected existence what is there that can sustain us? There is no sustaining power without connection.

We long for connection. Real connection. We dream about it being true. We hope in our deep longings for a world of peace, one that actually cares for itself and its people. We yearn for the day when people and nature are in perfect harmony and union again.

Why? We can’t say exactly. But it is part of human existence. Has been in us from the beginning. We know and believe, despite the evidence, humans are capable of more. We dream of the day when things will connect and work as they should.

Many have learned to cope with the reality of being so far removed from these dreams.  Perhaps too well. For many the dream of realization is too painfully far from their reality.  To dream or think about it is too profoundly sad. They let it go to survive.

Or so they think. Without the dream, however painful, our existence sinks into survival.  We forget the possibilities of redeemed humankind. We lose track of our Edenic beginnings, and our hope for a City of God ending. Our soul waits in the loom.