August 2, 2005

  • Tuesday, 2 August 2005


    8.30 a.m. NZ time


     


    It poured down rain all last night, but today the sun is sparkling off the sea, bouncing around the trees, throwing rainbow prisms of colour that go ricocheting off the wet, dripping leaves, right into my eyes. What a glorious moment to be alive.


     


    As I stood there, soaking it all into my being, I had a couple of thoughts. And a few minutes later when my daughter called to wish her mom a happy birthday, (today is my wife’s birthday) I was sharing those thoughts with her. Then she said, I should post these thoughts on my blog page.


     


    So here they are. Nearly every person living in the world today has heard at one time or another, a radio broadcast. Now I know there are those who, because of where they were born and where now they live, have never heard a radio broadcast. But those folks probably won’t have access to this blog page anyway, so I won’t be including them in my little group of radio listeners.


     


    So, my first thought was how a radio broadcast is a means, or form of communication. Science tells us that our universe came into existence as a result of a “Big Bang”. Scriptures tell us that our universe was spoken into being when God said, “Let there be light.”  I believe that as a result of God’s spoken words, there was a “Big Bang”, and the whole universe was blown into existence.


     


    Now to me, speaking words is a form of communication. And broadcasting them is a way to reach as many people as possible. So I thought of the universe, as nothing more than an archive storage unit, containing the broadcast recordings of every infinitesimal event that has ever occurred since the “Big Bang” until this present instant. Wow, what a show!


     


    So it’s all there isn’t it, every act, every word, even our thoughts and our dreams, all recorded in stereophonic sound and living colour on God’s great recording machine “the Universe”.


     


    That was my first thought; But then came, what was for me, a truly wonderful thought.


     


    The programme is still going on. It’s still being broadcast and the ID letters are, REALITY 101 on our awareness dial. The way we tune in is by surrendering to this present moment.


     


    The reason I believe the “Big Bang” show has not finished and is still being broadcast, is simply because every particle in the universe is in a state of constant change. Where every particle is located at this instant, has never before been in its present position, and it keeps on moving. It’s alive. This present moment is a living thing. It changes its shape every split nano- second. And I find that when I surrender to this ever changing reality, I change with it. I grow, I become whatever it is that God has in mind for me to become. When I don’t surrender, when I don’t let go of the past, of yesterday, or even yestersecond, I become stuck, frozen in the graveyard of time.


     


    The other day Mari and I were talking about how most people are all trying to control their lives. We thought back over the years, on how when we first started surrendering the control of our life and began to let IT control us, things within us started to change. The situations were still the same, but in a state of surrender, our old responses of fear and control were no longer necessary. Jesus said, “I am the way the truth and the life, and in our surrender to life, we discovered that life itself (Jesus) loves us very much and loves to provide us with whatever it is we need to grow and to become like Christ.


     


    We discovered that for us it wasn’t going to church or reading the Bible and memorizing scriptures, it wasn’t fellowship or prayer or prayer meetings that produced any spiritual growth within us, although God did use all of these things, these structures and forms, to point us in His direction. All of these things have been like sign posts directing us along the way. Not one of them, in themselves has brought about any spiritual growth within us. But what they did do for us was introduce us to “Reality”. We have found that “Reality” is the only FOOD that feeds our spirits. When we press into the sacred presence of Christ, found within the “Reality” of each precious moment, when we surrender to the tailor made “Reality” that God, Himself has prepared for us to experience, we live and breathe and have our being in a continuous consumption of His Being. Eating “Reality” is like living in a constant state of receiving communion, a constant state of prayer, a constant state of change and growth.


     


    “Reality” itself is His blood, His body, His sacrament, His spiritual food for our soul.


     


    So those were my thoughts this morning, which are for me truly wonderful thoughts. The programme is still going on. It’s still being broadcast and the ID letters always have and always will be, REALITY 101 on our awareness dial. The banquet is still being served; and the way we tune into the right frequency and receive this life-changing food is by surrendering to the sacrament of this present moment. Jesus Christ Himself.


     


    It’s just a couple a thoughts I had this morning, so what do you think?


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    BMcG


     


    I’ll be back ………… (Maybe)