Today, I am acutely aware that what I do for a living is NOT who I am. It does not and will not define me as an individual; I need no neat box to fit into, though I realize that I tend to put the parts of my day, attention, time and other parts of my life in boxes... not so much for the sake of labeling and identifying, as much as for organizing them in my thoughts, priorities, etc. This, I feel, keeps me sane.
Until VERY recently, I also put God in his very own, very BIG box. After following Him most of my life, I have grown comfortable in my knowledge, faith and understanding of God. Retrospectively, that seems very arrogant of me.
God will not suffer to fit into anyone's box no matter how big, pretty, neat, extravagant or holy it may be. Who am I to "assign" the Almighty Creator of all that is, a place in my life? My life should be placed wherever He wills it. My time, treasure, talent and the testimonial of my every breath should be His to use, spend, enjoy and direct. May it be so.
I have since discarded said box, and have discovered that I was only accessing a small part of God in my life, because my box had parameters. Anyway, the box is fading away. I now find God everywhere and in everything...that is not to say that everything and everyone is God, or a god...it is an acknowledgement that the artist pours him/herself into their masterpiece, infusing themselves into their handiwork.
Thus so, the Creator breathes life into His creation and can be seen, felt, heard, smelled, tasted and otherwise experienced in all of creation.
"No human soul is like any other human soul, and therefore the love of God for any human soul is infinite, for no other soul can satisfy the same need in God."
ReplyDeleteW.B. Yeats, The Celtic Twilight