"Blessed Are The Peacemakers"

A reader responds

“After reading your blogs on resonance: I was thinking there could be resonant evil as well a good.  Resonance  works in all ways some positive and come negative.”

You are absolutely correct.

“Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? Where, then, did these weeds come from?” ²⁸He answered, “An enemy has done this.” The slaves said to him, “Then do you want us to go and gather them?” ²⁹But he replied, “No; for in gathering the weeds you would uproot the wheat along with them. ³⁰Let both of them grow together until the harvest; and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, Collect the weeds first and bind them in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my barn.” (Mt. 13)

In the very first blog, on this amazing subject, I mentioned that In Jesus Wisdom Cynthia Bourgeault introduced me to a quantum physic concept called “Planck’s Constant.”  

“Planck’s Constant” is: “of constriction and density that comes as part and parcel of this human realm and is the necessary precondition for the full revelation of divine love.” (p.107) 

She continues this discussion on page 120.  “Only  at this particular density, within these sharp edges and term limits (the ultimate one, of course, being death) do the conditions  become perfect for the expression of the most tender and vulnerable aspects of divine love. Built right into the deep structure of this realm, then, is a “Planck’s Constant” of darkness and density.  It belongs to the warp and weft of creations itself, and to dissolve it is to cancel the very conditions through which this realm makes its uniquely important contribution to the divine fullness.” (p.120
  

In this world there is good and bad, ugly and beautiful, light and darkness.  That is just the truth.  

Why? 

I do not know.

However, think about this:  God came, in Jesus' skin, purposely into this conditions of darkness, to shine his light upon the need to change what was a most disturbing ingredient of the human being.

Read Isaiah chapter 9.

² The people who walked in darkness

   have seen a great light;  (I invite you to keep reading)

This dark side of life is, Carl Jung describes as, “the excluded shadowland of the fourth.”(152 Second Simplicity)

As we read throughout scripture we are constantly faced with the “darkness” — the sharp craggy edges of human nature. 

We experience this tendency, of good and not-so-good, in nature, weather, wind, volcanos, hurricanes, floods and fire.  

And in all of those kinds of terribly destructive occurrences there is divine possibilities of new life, new growth, comes into being within humans, animals and nature.

We experience this sharp edged way in:

 Musical arrangements.

      Poetry,

         The Psalms,

Jeremiah,

      Isaiah,

                         The story of Job, 

        Jesus’ parables

  and everyday life still today.

“Like any good Zen master, he (Jesus) is out to completely short-circuit our mental wiring so that we are catapulted into a whole new way of seeing and being.” (p. 39 Jesus Wisdom)

Jesus bring it all together:   

                                       “Blessed are the peacemakers.”