First post in centuries
My inspiration behind this stems from an experience I just had at the grocery. As I was putting my bags away in the front seat, I made the ever slightest eye contact with a tiny girl. She was maybe five years old at most, and was crouched in the front of a shopping cart being pushed by whom I am only going to assume was her father.
As I got in the car and started the engine, putting the stick into first gear, I glance over and see her cart outside my passenger window and she smiles and waves to me. I smile and wave back. No big deal.
As I thought about that moment on the drive home, I thought of how seemingly meaningful it is to have a small child smile at you. They do not know you. They do not know of the good or bad or even terrible things you may have done in your life. They have no clue whatsoever. No judgement, no bias. Yet something inside them calls out to make contact with others, and to express their happiness in an outward manner.
Was this perhaps the elusive 'God' we seek? This experience, driven by coincidence alone perhaps, could possible have been something set up from the beginning to happen. A carefully placed set of 0's and 1's in the binary code of "God's Plan" lined up to send me a smile and a wave at the most appropriate time.
Should this not be the way 'God' works if it is in fact real?
This child received nothing for it's unprovoked act. It was utterly selfless, yet it had very much value in and of itself. I would like to think that it was a small blip in 'The Matrix' so to speak where 'God' managed to slip through the cracks and sort of give a thumbs up of encouragement.
Perhaps I am just crazy.