Considering the relationship I have, or better phrased,
do NOT have with God/The Deity/the Universal Consciousness (whatever you choose
to call Her/Him), I can understand why we claim to be made in Her/His image and likeness,
so often believe we have supplanted Her/Him.
A news story like this one, which could not seriously hope to complete
with the likes of who won an Oscar and who got snubbed (since
neither of us even got nominated I think we’re included in the latter) or how Kris Jenner is being blackmailed for a nude video of herself
by persons unknown (I see a movie, “Fifty Shades of Ewww!”) almost was lost
this weekend which is a shame because it’s an amazing and uplifting story.
I say that not just I stumbled over it on-line after an
exchange of notes with a family member on matters of the health of their
significant other with news that made me sad since I can neither help nor pray
for others to help, but more (I think) because it’s a major miracle rendered
mundane (seemingly) because of the effortlessness with which very brilliant and
talented people, backed by teams with training and technology, make all of this
seem routine though none of it is truly “as is seems.”
I sometimes think of Ozymandias
when these stories surface except it’s never those accomplishing the miraculous
that confuse their humanity for divinity or misplace their sense of humility
but the rest of us here on the ant farm with beepers heedlessly hustling and
hurtling towards an uncertain future with outcomes we can neither conceive of
nor control. We lose sight of how our
lives are nothing more than a
dry wind sweeping across the desert, curling into a circle of birth.
-bill kenny
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