February 27, 2007
Bang
Do you suppose that when God set off the Big Bang, she actually knew where it would all lead?
If it’s of one’s nature to be a creator, even The Creator, it must be hard to avoid doing something creative every waking hour. And if one never sleeps or has any need to, something creative might be going on all the while. It’s no wonder the universe is expanding just to keep out of the way of whatever’s bamming along behind it. And then, there’s always the possibility that there are multiple universes constantly getting in the way of one another.
Somewhere in the midst of all this and just so it wouldn’t all go unnoticed except by its Creator, there simply had to be an audience. Ipso facto — us or a reasonable facsimile, and that meant eyes and ears and vocal chords and whatever else. Somebody once defined human being that way — something to talk for the universe, something for God to talk to, and something for us to talk about.
Well, we do. But to be in a position such as this that God has put us is a terrible risk. Some of us, too many of us, get the notion into our heads that since we have all this capacity to watch and name and listen, we must be pretty special. Well, we are. But we seem to forget one thing about it, and that is that God is God, and we’re not.
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