To be urged on. Called to. Beckoned…
Come to me.
We all long for that. To be wanted. To be needed. To be
loved.
Sometimes we misplace that desire, finding diversions to
fulfill that yearning. Those diversions feel safe for a while. Comfortable. But
inevitably what is transitory, slips from our grasp.
We search for meaning.
That’s when we hear it.
Come to me…
Our heart skips a beat. There is a lump deep in our throat.
Our breath is taken away. We want to answer.
Sometimes we hear the calling in a gentle breeze. We see it
in the breathtaking beauty of the mountains. We feel it as we watch the tide
ebb and flow. We smell it in the powerful scent of a gardenia. We taste it in the first
sip of morning coffee.
We know the call. We dream about it. But do we appreciate
where it comes from?
When we are in awe of the stars at night, do we recognize
the inexhaustible voice?
Do we see the ever renewable nature and understand where it
comes from?
Each moment is a gift. Each second 2.6 million red blood
cells are manufactured in your bone marrow. That means that 3 billion base
pairs in each cell are copied to the tune of 2.6 million times each second.
That is an immeasurable present. That is an unfathomable event. And yet it
happens each second of every day.
I can appreciate the science of this intellectually. I can
comprehend the body’s ability to do this academically. But when I try to understand
why, if I don’t have an inkling that something else is out there—something beyond
me—then I cease to imagine. It doesn’t make sense. No amount of evolution could
have happened in the time earth has been here to accomplish such a task.
I’m not a strict Creationist either. I think there’s something
else, something that makes sense with the realm of science and nature that
explains it. And I think that eventually our minds will grasp that. But not
yet.
Why?
Because we refuse the call.
Just as we wrestle with how gravity fits in with the other
natural forces, we wrestle with the understanding of our physical being. Why?
Because ultimately we all know that deep within our physical form, we are much
more. And that doesn’t make sense.
Why?
Because we refuse the call…
Come to me.
There is a balance between science and faith. There is a
home for both. The very ideas that are at odds with each other (because of our
limitations) are the very concepts that need to be meshed together. If we
decide to solve problems looking from Nature’s eyes, from the renewable, Everlasting
Eyes, then we might be able to come up with solutions that make sense, that
cure cancer, that unravel the depths of depression.
But if we continue to have a myopic view of nature and
pigeon-hole ideas because they are not material and we can’t hold them in our hands,
then we will continue to be handicapped.
So the next time you hear the call…
Come to me…
Follow your heart.
The Everlasting is trying to teach you something.
Something of great importance. Something eternal. Something
of Truth.
Because in the end, there will be no refusal. Your blood cells
will stop making copies, your mind will fail and your physical being will cease.
And you will be left with the call…
Come to me.
