Wednesday, April 10, 2013

The Sound of Falling Trees


If a tree falls in the woods and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound? The question is not as silly as you may think; neither is the answer. That’s because the question is really asking: is man the center of all reality? Can anything not certified by the human senses be real?
There comes a point in every life when we must answer this question with eternal finality. If reality exists only in the years of this life and within the realm of six senses, it is nothing but a pointless exercise in bio-electrochemical futility. Eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow, we die! What else is there for those people who are the center of the universe? We die and all reality crumbles into blackness.
If however, as your spirit tells you, there is more to life and reality than this and we are not the big picture, then what is?  A being so powerful that he could create the universe with his words, surely would not be interested in the likes of us. What interaction could we possibly offer?
The answer is love.
For forty years love has awakened beside me and walked through each day with me. Love returns to me in my children, their children and their children’s children. Love scratches at my bedside every morning and roots its cold nose under my hand. To love and be loved; we are created for no other purpose.
Love begins and ends with God. God is love. “And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.”

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