This is something I wrote this afternoon at Kickapoo with an old-fashioned pen and paper. I'm making myself sit down and post it because I'm keeping far too much stuff in my head
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The thing about creation, on whatever scale you attempt it, whether you're God or just stumbling around in the dark, is that if it's a true creation, it grows beyond itself. It perpetuates and continues to grow. And true creation changes shape and adapts and does all the things that plants and animals and humans and rocks and ecosystems do.
If you think of God as a parent, it's easy to imagine the relationship between God and man as in Genesis might actually have existed. But then creations moved on and began fulfilling their individual and collective destinies of becoming whatever they were going to become. Mothers and children, or fathers and children, have close relationships in an ideal world. They have less close relationships with their grandchildren, because their children, their creations, have their own lives and must now direct their children. Ignoring human mortaility and getting back to the God idea, that's a lot of grandchildren and subsequent levels of great-grandchildren to keep track of. How much more challenging for
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If you think of God as a parent, it's easy to imagine the relationship between God and man as in Genesis might actually have existed. But then creations moved on and began fulfilling their individual and collective destinies of becoming whatever they were going to become. Mothers and children, or fathers and children, have close relationships in an ideal world. They have less close relationships with their grandchildren, because their children, their creations, have their own lives and must now direct their children. Ignoring human mortaility and getting back to the God idea, that's a lot of grandchildren and subsequent levels of great-grandchildren to keep track of. How much more challenging for ( ... )
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