One Gargantuan, Humongous Ecosystem

The anniversary of my high school graduation, June 10,1960, has created an emotional, yet positive, conversation in my mind.  

Fifty-nine years ago two hundred young men and women walked down the isles, of the Naval Base (Ordnance Test Station in China Lake, California) movie theater, filled with hopes and dreams and a world of possibilities in front of them. So much yet to experience.

Through all of those years this class has amazingly stayed connected.  We even have a cyber connection. When someone is sick or has died we are all informed through the internet within hours.

All of these memories have me thinking about the theology of connection.  That is God’s original plan for all things living together with a common purpose. It brought to mind an imagination, agreed upon by many, that all of creation was designed to connect. 

Just think of it.  

One gargantuan, humongous ecosystem.  

A complex network of interconnectedness.  

All of life conscious of itself and each other.  All elements of creation knowing of the other parts of their entire existence.  All having their own function in the working’s of the whole.

A  fungal network helping out their neighbors by  sharing nutrients and information.  

Mushrooms live this way.   

An article written by Nic Fleming, in November of 2014, suggests that: “around 90% of land plants are in mutually— beneficial relationships with fungi….  The 19th-century German biologist Albert Bernard Frank coined the word “Mycorrhiza” to describe these partnerships, in which the fungus colonizes the roots of plants.”

In today’s computerized world the theory of mycorrhiza (of plant life) might even apply to cyberspace. A non-plant — non-human, wireless — ecosystem of communication.

To bring it all to a more personal point, the human body is also an internet of all its parts. When one part is not functioning well the rest of the ecosystem suffers.   

Right?

Seems to me the Apostle Paul writes of this in one of his letters.

So what is my point?  Well, actually I am trying to figure that out (;

I am thinking it has to do with how God created all that is.

And I am thinking that all creatures large and small, terrestrial or aquatic, plant or spiders all have their individual purpose in the whole of life.

Although, I do question the need, or purpose, of black flies and mosquitoes in the scheme of things(;

All of you connected to me; and I don’t even know who you are.

Kind of amazing!