“The Age of Nations is past,
The task before us now, if we would not perish,
Is to build the earth.”
Teilhard de Chardin
I believe there is a God and that there is meaning and
purpose to our existence: humanity is to
evolve and learn to live as God has directed—then we will join God in
eternity. I believe that Father God, who
created life and the world, first guided infant humanity. I believe he gave directions to Abraham to
form the Jewish nation in a time when ‘Might Means Right’ was the only guiding
principle. For the nascent nation God
chose Moses to lead their development with laws and rules. This changed humanity’s consciousness. It evolved from tribalism and led to the first
Axial period wherein, throughout the globe, isolated clusters of humanity, led
by great Prophets, laid the foundations of civilization between 800 and 200
B.C.
When God determined the time was ripe, God the Father ceased
direct guidance, giving humanity full power of free will. God entered time as the man Jesus, demonstrating
how we are to live. Like rebellious
adolescents, mankind did not adopt ‘The Way’ given us by Jesus. Some saw the wisdom and Christianity took
hold, keeping Jesus’ words alive. For
centuries the world progressed physically in adolescent-like rebellion, playing
dangerous war games, claiming for profit earth’s natural resources and
rebelling against moral order.
We now stand on the brink of self-destruction! We're children no longer, needing to be guided and led;
we can see what the rebellion has achieved.
It is time to accept our adulthood—another consciousness change is
needed—to recognize our world is one interacting/interdependent unit that will
succeed or perish as a whole.
* * *
THE CHILD IS FATHER OF THE MAN
From parent comes child
Who is destined himself to
become parent.
From God comes man
Himself to become as God—
One to other
United in understanding
Through shared creation.
Each still is
But they share a being
Impossible without the
evolutionary development.
But that is the completion—
The becoming is painful.
To grow under protective
care:
To have one to give answers,
To have one to run to for comfort,
To have one to define limits’
To have one to forgive mistakes,
To have one to answer needs
To have one to see in us value . . . . . .
Childhood and
Innocence.
Then to be alone:
To search out answers,
To endure without comfort,
To draw our own limits,
To be responsible for mistakes,
To find the means to answer needs,
To create our own value by our actions . . . .
Maturity and
Responsibility.
The aloneness feels like
abandonment;
But necessary for becoming.
It is weakness, cowardice,
and death
To run back to the protectiveness
outgrown.
It is strength, courage and
life
To face the challenge alone.
The challenges to be met?
One cannot foretell.
For some they are few;
For others, many.
But the greater the
challenges met and overcome,
The greater the one
overcoming.
Refuse the challenge
Deny the worth of the struggle.
Give no example to those who
follow,
Destruction . .
. . . . .
And
worse yet,
Responsibility
for that destruction!
Refusal,
denial, and the killing of hope
Will
not eliminate the responsibility inherent in maturation.
There
is no choice but to go forward and build,
To
find within the self
The
ability to become as the One who gave being.
God
is not dead
His
infinite wisdom sees the necessity
Of
Man’s accepting the responsibility
Of
his own destiny.
The
pain?
The suffering?
The
aloneness?
To
be endured!
Instead
of receiving,
It
is now ours to give
The
child must now become the father.
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