God's Energy Still Flows. -- reboot

Rebooted June 28, 2022

 I have spent the last two days blogging about the amazing spiderweb. Today I want to move from those small delicate threads of the web to a much larger — gigantic — hypothesis.

This is not my own original idea.  It is a common theology of mystics and spiritual master through time. It is a theology of interconnectedness of all that exists.  

This is what Edward Hays writes about this common idea:  

“Contrary to 'common sense’ or surface observation, the the scientific conclusions of quantum physics tell us that our earth is not composed of blocks  of matter.  Essentially, all the physical universe is made up of energy.  If we are to understand who we are, and something about the world we live in, we need to take a closer look at energy.

Energy vibrates at different frequencies, from very slow to extremely rapid……

Your thoughts, which you may regard as without physical effect because they do not have mass or weight, are forms of energy that have a great deal of effect!” (p. 24  In Pursuit of The Great White Rabbit)

Now allow me to confess.  This person trying to make sense of all of this energy stuff; is a person who is extremely right brained.  One who has avoided any thought of science, physic, or chemistry my whole life long.  

So, for me to write about a theory, like quantum physics -- or any physic --  gets me totally excited, about what I am reading, on this foreign subject.

It is extraordinarily astounding to me.

So the warning is this:  I may take days to get it all figured out in this blog (;

You can decide not to read these blogs.  Or, you can join me in my fascination.

The fascination surround the third person of the Trinity — The Holy Spirit. The wisdom of God moving into, and informing, our ordinary brains.

To end today's thoughts I will just say that my faith could not have grown to what it is today without God’s energy -- The Holy Spirit — flowing through my being all these many years.

More tomorrow

More On The Spiderweb -- Reboot

 

Comments to the spiderweb analogy:

Reader #1:  “What a lovely metaphor - I like it!  I don't know if this fits, but from a different perspective: the web gives life (to the spider), and also represents the interconnected of all things - the cycle of life and death (the spider needs the web to survive - and the flies and other things that get caught in it are part of that.”

Reader #2:  “Wow,  This is really awesome!  It is such a good comparison.  I believe that many of us have been connected and unconnected from God's web at times in our lives.”

35 Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will hardship, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written, "For your sake we are being killed all day long; we are accounted as sheep to be slaughtered." 37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8)

Our family entomologist, reader #1, gives the perfect biblical metaphor for the truth that Paul writes about in Roman 8: ....nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God. 

Yesterday God was the spider -- the master builder of the journey call life.  The one who connects all of his creation together with him.  God was also the web that draws people into his way of living.

It is a picture, of the interconnectedness, of the original design for God’s plan, on how we were created to exist in the world.  It is a perfect image of the path of life.  All moving out from the center.  Like the spider, we all need the web to survive.   And God needs us for the truth of his love to survive in this crazy world.

What I particularly like about Claudio’s -- the family entomologist -- description is that the flies, and other creatures, get “caught” in the web of life and “are part of it.”  

That is how it happened centuries ago when Jesus came to correct the Israelites exclusive attitudes about outsiders -- the so called “unclean” of the world.  He came to bring them all together in God’s web.  

To build on that,  people -- creatures of all kinds -- get caught by the attraction to God’s love expressed and lived out in the world by all his children. 

The unfortunate thing is that often what others see — observe — in God’s people is not always love.  Rather,  they see and hear a lot of judgment, and rules, and finger pointing.  Finger pointing at “sinners.”  That is, those who don’t ‘believe the way they “should,”  according to the finger pointer's way of thinking.  

Those creatures hide the wonderful web of life,  They throw a shadow of over it.   A dark shadow that clouds the delicate formation designed by the master builder. 

When that happens it is more important than ever, for those caught in the web, to live more connected to the precious truth of God’s gracious love and forgiveness.   By living that truth out-loud, in gracious and loving ways, everyday through their actions and ways of speaking.

  

To be clear, it is a tough position to be caught in at times..  But the master builder shows us how to live with his ever persistent manner of building .  Ever so slowly, and surely, binding all things together, patiently waiting at the center for the cycles of life to unfold.  Holding tight to all those who get caught in the fold of his gracious web.

The Spiderweb of Life --Reboot

I am reposting two blog entries; because they lead to some thoughts I have been working on for weeks.  These thoughts have to do with how the Holy Spirit communicates with us.  

The spiderweb's construction, and purpose, seem to fit with the Holy Spirit's ways of connecting.

I know, that probably doesn't make all that much sense to you.  However I invite you just let your thoughts come along with my journey.

Spiderweb of Life

24 And God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures of every kind: cattle and creeping things and wild animals of the earth of every kind." And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals of the earth of every kind, and the cattle of every kind, and everything that creeps upon the ground of every kind. And God saw that it was good (Gen. 1:24-25)

My mind is playing with one of God's tiny creations -- the spider and its delicate looking web.  And how God uses the possibilities of what 'tiny' offers.  

Today's blog will give you some insight into how this pastor’s mind works early in the morning when it is trying to listens to God.  

I am thinking about spiderwebs; because when I took my dog Jake out this morning to water the lawn, I saw a spiderweb on the hedge by my sidewalk.  It was almost perfectly symmetrical.  It is amazing to me how a thing so small is able to construct something so perfect.  

Spiderwebs have always fascinated me.  They are so dedicate looking and yet so tough to break without getting caught. 

So I came into the house and googled how a spider web is created.

 

Now, you may be wondering, what does this have to do with God and faith?  

Well, for one thing, everything on earth has to do with God.  And, the way the spider builds her web reminds me of how God’s Spirit grows our faith from birth to death.  Starting from a tiny seed, that becomes bigger and stronger, grows ever so slowly through life towards death.  

When I look at a spiderweb I see the movement of time it take to build -- or weave.  As all of lifes experiences and struggles, building one beside the other.  A conglomeration of many knoxs and lengths that are woven together into one’s life.

What isn't usually seen, by the human eye, is how the spider has carefully placed the structure points together with the bridge threads, anchor thread, frame threads and other points to secure the success — the strength — of her structure.   

The web is usually constructed at night in most cases.  

My analogy, in all of this, is that the spider is God. Who places each structural points to secure the web.  The center is God’s foundation point. The web itself is our life. The circles represent how God moves us through our lives with his careful assistance. The circular shape and connecting threads are the path of our living.  At the center of the web God holds it all together.

God is also the web in my imagination. 

When we stay connected to that perfectly built web of bridge threads, anchor thread, and frame threads. And if we don’t try to break the cycles -- our life is secure in God’s care.  But even when we try to break out, from time to time God, like the web, is there to pull us back in.

I don’t know, I think that gives us a fairly good imagination about how our faith unfold.


More tomorrow